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

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