It’s was more a question of balance between keeping the code small, and adding module dependencies. For what my code snippet does, I’d say I wouldn’t have gained much simplicity from using LWP::UserAgent (which I love, btw ).

Still, same as previous comment : if I’d wanted to make something more robust and / or efficient, I’d probably have been with Net::Twitter as it does everything.

Thanks for your comment !

Stephane

Something along the lines of this should do it (code untested, but very similar to code I’ve used previously):

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Net::Twitter;

my $twit = Net::Twitter->new( { username => ‘MyUserName’, password => ‘MyPassword’ } );

my $mentions = $twit->mentions;

foreach my $mention (@$mentions) {
my $screen_name = encode(“UTF-8″, $mention->{user}->{screen_name});
my $text = encode(“UTF-8″, $mention->{text});
format =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$screen_name, $text
^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<mentions to continue running indefinitely while periodically checking for new mentions.