#
# I use curl and sed instead of something cleaner like LWP
#
# deal with it
#
my $status_exec = `curl --silent http://twitter.com/$user | sed -n -e 's/.*Updates.*<span class=\"stats_count numeric\">\\(.*\\)<\\/span>.*/\\1/p'`;
$status_exec =~ tr/,//d;
$statuses_count = int($status_exec) || die "Couldn't retrieve current statuses count:\n";