Best wrapper for simultaneous API requests?

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I am looking for the easiest, simplest way to access web APIs that return either JSON or XML, with concurrent requests.

For example, I would like to call the twitter search API and return 5 pages of results at the same time (5 requests). The results should ideally be integrated and returned in one array of hashes.

I have about 15 APIs that I will be using, and already have code to access them individually (using simple a NET HTTP request) and parse them, but I need to make these requests concurrent in the easiest way possible. Additionally, any error handling for JSON/XML parsing is a bonus.

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