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Twitter updates, via CLI

Posted in Play on 20 March 2007 | Comments?
Tags: bash, cli, linux, twitter

I’ve just started using Twitter, an up-and-coming web service that posts user status on the web, in IM and in SMS. The service also exposes its API, so it’s possible to build apps using it.

I found a nifty way of updating my Twitter status through the command line:

curl -u username:password -d status='status_goes_here' -s http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null 2>&1

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