gwibber-service has a child that polls at 10Hz which is causing a lot of wakeup events

The gwibber-service forks off a child process that runs a polling loop constantly at 10Hz which causes a lot of wakeups on an idle system. On my Lenovo X220i this constitutes 7% of the wakeups on a cleanly installed system when running idle. Extraneous wakeups waste power and reduce battery life.

You can see the offending task using strace:

sudo strace -f /usr/bin/gwibber-service

and after about 8 or so seconds you can then observe the select(), wait() polling loop:
...
[pid 11711] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 100000}) = 0 (Timeout)
[pid 11711] wait4(11710, 0x7f3991defb8c, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0
[pid 11711] wait4(11709, 0x7f3991defb8c, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0
[pid 11711] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 100000}) = 0 (Timeout)
[pid 11711] wait4(11710, 0x7f3991defb8c, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0
[pid 11711] wait4(11709, 0x7f3991defb8c, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0
[pid 11711] select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 100000}) = 0 (Timeout)

This is overkill in my opinion and any code that sits in a tight polling loop like this need re-engineering to be more power friendly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gwibber-service 3.2.1-0ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 20 14:40:04 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gwibber
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)