We already know how to update Twitter from the command line. To get your and your friends’ timeline from the CLI, use the following one-liner:
curl -u username –silent "https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss" | perl -ne ‘print "$2\n" if /< (description)>(.*)< \/\1>/;’
Using the same method, you can also get unread Gmail inbox messages (via commandlinefu.com).
Update: Ah, it’s awake!
We’ll see you when you wake up.
While we’re in the subject of anthromorphism, check out and follow MarsPhoenix’s other cohorts on Twitter. I wished we had this back in my science high school days — it would have been a blast. (Pointy nerd hat on.)
I just noticed that my Twitter timeline RSS is not being displayed in my tumblog, so I went back to Yahoo! Pipes to sniff around. It appears that the Twitter feed is not coming up valid (or Pipes could not parse it).
(Update: The Twitter feed is valid, according to the W3C, but the Feedburner [...]
You’ll probably notice the cool Flash tag cloud on the sidebar. That’s courtesy of Roy Tanck’s WP-Cumulus plugin. Thanks, @sofimi for the heads up.
I’m still on K2 (RC3), but I’ve ditched its Sidebar Manager for WP’s widgets. SBM has been causing lots of issues for me lately, but I haven’t had the time to muck [...]
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 > [...]
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