use threads;
use threads::shared;
use Thread::Queue;

use Wx;

my %thread_hash;
share(%thread_hash);

# ... 

# create $twit object
eval {

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

    if ( defined $twit ) {

        # I've tried setting it here 
        # but it complains ...
        $thread_hash{'twit'} = $twit;
 
        # This works fine, and it's what I currently call
        # but I can't access this from the thread because
        # the worker thread was created way before any 
        # of this code.
        $self->{twit} = $twit;
    }
};
if ( my $err = $@ ) {
    return;
}

# ...

# starting my actual thread
sub StartThread {
	
    my ($self, $event) = @_;

    use Data::Dumper;
    print Dumper( %thread_hash );

    
    $self->{queue}->enqueue('GO'); 
}