Hello Monks,

This morning Twitter had a DoS attack, which also brought the site I'm working on to a crawl. I was wondering if there would be a way to time out my eval statement apart of Net::Twitter so that I can continue to display the page if no results are brought back within a few seconds. Here is my eval code:

#Parameters: id, user_id, screen_name, since_id, max_id, count, page
eval {
  my $statuses = $nt->user_timeline({ screen_name => 'username', count
+ => 4 });
  for my $status ( @$statuses ) {
    my $message = substr $status->{text}, 0, 70;
          
          if ($status->{text} ne $message)
          {
              $message = $message . '...';
          }
     print $message;
   }
};
if ( $@ ) {

    if ( blessed $@ && $@->isa('Net::Twitter::Error') ) {
        #... use the thrown error obj
        warn $@->error;
    }
    else {
        # something bad happened!
        warn "Twitter is failing!";
    }
}
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I want to try and timeout after like 3 seconds.

Thanks for your help monks!