Tweet from command line

Written on October 25th, 2009 at 12:52 pm by shredder12

There are many ways of tweeting applications and programs available on the net. Click on an icon and you will be redirected to your twitter homepage, use an a twitter application and a lot more. Here is another such method. Using Curl you can tweet by executing a single command on your terminal.

[shredder12]$ curl  -u shredder12:mypassword -d status='a commandline tweet'  https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

As you can see, tweeting is just a command away ;).

1 Comment

Matthew Bauer (not verified)
July 25th, 2010 08:04 am
It's probably smart not to put your password in you bash history. This works great: $ curl  -u shredder12 -d status='a commandline tweet'  https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml It will just ask you for your password after you execute the command.

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