diff --git a/examples/client/twitter.rb b/examples/client/twitter.rb
index 69d2224..f870da4 100644
--- a/examples/client/twitter.rb
+++ b/examples/client/twitter.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
   streaming.get("/1.1/user.json",
                 headers: { "authorization" => SimpleOAuth::Header.new(:get, "https://userstream.twitter.com/1.1/user.json", {}, credentials).to_s,
                            "accept-encoding" => "identity;q=1" }) { |res| # plum doesn't have built-in gzip/deflate decoder
-    if res.status != 200
+    if res.status != "200"
       puts "failed userstream"
       exit
     end