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 => '27712481,14252288,972651,679303,18703227,3839,27712481' );

     sub got_tweet {
	 my $tweet = shift;
	 print "By: $tweet->{user}{screen_name}\n";
	 print "Message: $tweet->{text}\n";
     }      

DESCRIPTION

Twitter recently allowed access to a streaming version of their api. The api is currently under "alpha test" release, but hopfully it will prove scalable and become the normal way to suck data from the twitterverse.

Recent update: Track and follow are now merged into a single api call. /1/status/filter.json now allows a single connection go listen for keywords and follow a list of users.

HTTP Basic authentication is supported (no OAuth yet) so you will need a twitter account to connect.

Options user, pass: required, twitter account user/password callback: required, a subroutine called on each received tweet format: optional, returned data format, json or xml, defaults to json

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