Bug#882390: libnet-twitter-perl: tweets are truncated to 140 characters

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Vincent,

> Some time ago, Twitter has extended tweets to more than 140 characters.
> But with Net::Twitter, tweets are truncated to 140 characters, and
> even less (because they include a link to get the full tweet when this
> occurs). This makes this module rather useless nowadays.
> 
> This module should be updated to the current Twitter API.

in https://github.com/semifor/Net-Twitter/issues/76 the upstream author
makes clear that he considers Net::Twitter a dead end and has deprecated
it in favour of Twitter::API. In fact, the git repo has added the
following notice:

    This module has been superseded by L<Twitter::API>. Please update as
    soon as you possibly can to use new features and the new API
    versions. This module will no longer be supported.

Unfortunately, Twitter::API doesn't seem to be packaged in Debian, and
its POD says "This in an alpha release. The interface may change." ...

Florian