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Baaaad idea. Seriously, sending username and password in cleartext over the wire because "it's faster to implement" is not something that's worth doing.
If you're considering adding similar functionality to your Django site, check out Tweepy. It's absolutely wonderful.

http://github.com/joshthecoder/tweepy

Python-twitter will work too, but it covers significantly fewer API calls than Tweepy and doesn't have native oauth support (though oauth-python-twitter solves the latter nicely enough).