Twitter from a Unix Command Line

Microblogging seems to be all the rage nowadays. We recently wrote about a popular microblogging platform called twitter.

Wouldn't it be nice to send a twitter post from your Linux command line. It seems to be the perfect application for command line folks.

Here are some instructions on how to create your own twitter script.

Step 1)
Make sure you have curl installed. If not download it and install.

Step 2)
Create a file

Example:

vi /home/bin/twitter

#Add the following lines

curl --basic --user "username:passwd" --data-ascii "status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json" -o /dev/null
echo Message Sent Successfully!

#Don't forget to change the username and passwd to match your twitter account details

Step 3)
Make the twitter script executable

Example:

chmod 755 /home/bin/twitter

Step 4)

Run your script:

/home/bin/twitter Here is my first twitter message

Happy microblogging!
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Vassilios
Co-Founder
OuterVillage.com
http://outervillage.com

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