code: def peek(self):
          
          c = self.connection.cursor()
          first_tweet_id = c.execute("SELECT tweet from tweetlist where label='first_tweet'").next()[0]
          if first_tweet_id is None:
              # No tweets are in the list, so return None
              return None
  
          tweet = c.execute("SELECT message from tweets WHERE id=?", (first_tweet_id,)).next()[0]
  
          c.close()
          return tweet
docs: Peeks at the first of the list without removing it.