This is an example application using Django, with the help of django-tastypie, and backbone.js. Because everyone needs to write a Twitter clone, it is a Twitter clone.
Preferably in a virtualenv, run the following commands:
git clone https://joshbohde@github.com/joshbohde/django-backbone-example.git
cd django-backbone-example/backbone_example
pip install -r requirements.txt
./manage.py syncdb --noinput
./manage.py runserver