Geek out your twitter!

Posted: June 2nd, 2010 | Author: A.J. | Filed under: nerd, silliness |

I interrupt your regularly schedule style blog… for a really important tidbit of information…

How to post to Twitter using commandline!

1. Create the Script.

Fire up your terminal and create a script with the following contents:

curl --basic --user "<User>:<Password>" --data-ascii "status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"

Substituting <User> for your username and <Password> for your password, of course. The status= accepts your twitter status.

2. Save your script.

mv it to /usr/local/bin or and chmod u+x it.

3. Run it!

Run it like you run tings!

twitter "This is my status update!"

Success! I’m such a nerd that this makes me happy… now I can run terminal (I use it daily anyways) to update my twitter… with useless crap. Incredibly useless crap.

And… I’m done.

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