NAME Using Twitter's streaming api. SYNOPSIS use Net::Twitter::Stream; Net::Twitter::Stream->new ( user => $username, pass => $password, callback => \&got_tweet, track => 'perl,tinychat,emacs', follow => '27712481,14252288,972651' ); sub got_tweet { my ( $tweet, $json ) = @_; # a hash containing the tweet # and the original json print "By: $tweet->{user}{screen_name}\n"; print "Message: $tweet->{text}\n"; } DESCRIPTION The Streaming verson of the Twitter API allows near-realtime access to various subsets of Twitter public statuses. The /1/status/filter.json api call can be use to track up to 200 keywords and to follow 200 users. HTTP Basic authentication is supported (no OAuth yet) so you will need a twitter account to connect. JSON format is only supported. Twitter may depreciate XML. More details at: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api Options user, pass: required, twitter account user/password callback: required, a subroutine called on each received tweet perl@redmond5.com @martinredmond UPDATES https fix: iwan standley