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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def make_twitter_request(url, user_id, params={}, request_type='GET'):
 """ Generically make a request to twitter API using a particular user's authorization """

    if request_type == "GET":
        return requests.get(url, auth=get_twitter_auth(user_id), params=params)
    elif request_type == "POST":
        return requests.post(url, auth=get_twitter_auth(user_id), params=params)