I had a look at the code, and suspect something like this would
disable the "phone home" feature of the program:

diff --git a/src/shell/tupmainwindow.cpp b/src/shell/tupmainwindow.cpp
index a5f3575..7b2a9f2 100644
--- a/src/shell/tupmainwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/shell/tupmainwindow.cpp
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
***************************************************************************/

#include "tupmainwindow.h"
-#include "tuptwitter.h"
+//#include "tuptwitter.h"
#include "tupnewproject.h"
#include "tupabout.h"
#include "tuppackagehandler.h"
@@ -324,9 +324,11 @@ void TupMainWindow::setWorkSpace(const QStringList &users)
bool getNews = TCONFIG->value("GetNews", true).toBool();
if (getNews) {
// Downloading maefloresta Twitter status
+#if 0 /* Disable call home */
TupTwitter *twitter = new TupTwitter();
twitter->start();
connect(twitter, SIGNAL(pageReady()), this, SLOT(addTwitterPage())); +#endif
}

if (m_projectManager->isOpen()) {

Note, the patch is untested.
--
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

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