diff --git a/lib/twitter.rb b/lib/twitter.rb
index cc2bb46ff..f1c2eb39d 100644
--- a/lib/twitter.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter.rb
@@ -29,3 +29,4 @@
 require 'twitter/trend'
 require 'twitter/tweet'
 require 'twitter/user'
+require 'twitter/util'
diff --git a/lib/twitter/util.rb b/lib/twitter/util.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e4de33f03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/twitter/util.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+module Twitter
+  module Util
+    def self.threaded_map(enumerable)
+      enumerable.map { |object|
+        Thread.new { yield object }
+      }.map(&:value)
+    end
+  end
+end