Thanks, that is so much cleaner!

I was winging it--I'm very new to rails and ruby--and I was copying this:
https://github.com/hybridgroup/hashcode/blob/master/app/models/tweet.rb
... which doesn't actually access the "text" field via your tweet.attrs,
but their Tweet object saves your tweet object's attrs as a json attribute
and accesses it via that.

In your gem's documentation or examples, I didn't see how to access the
various info that comes in a tweet object. But maybe I missed something
obvious!

-Ben
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