Twitter to Atom converter:
$ twitter2atom.pl '#elag2013' > feed.xml
Twitter importer Catmandu style:
Usage:
use Catmandu::Importer::Twitter;
my $x = Catmandu::Importer::Twitter->new(query => '#elag2013');
$x->each(sub {
my $obj = shift;
print $obj->{text} , "\n";
});
or lazier via the command line
$ catmandu data --from-importer Twitter --from-query '#elag2013' --into-exporter YAML
See the Catmandu project for more examples: http://librecat.org