[eieio]

I felt the same about number 3.

  [x in tweet.split() for x in wordlist]

Seems better to me than

  map(lambda x: x in tweet.split(),wordlist)

Although the natural thing for me to do would be

  [x for x in wordlist if x in tweet]

Which both generates a list of words instead of booleans(['scala', 'sbt'] instead of [True, False, False, False, False]) and also matches the 'sbt' in tweet.

[saintfiends]

or just:

    set(tweet.split()) & set(wordlist)