Tweeting through Terminal (Ubuntu)

This is a short tutorial explaining how to post to Twitter using command-line in Linux, without needing to even open up your web browser.

First, install the curl package: sudo apt-get install curl Next, create a script anywhere in your $PATH, for example twitter.sh inside ~/bin, where ~ is your home directory (make sure ~/bin is included in your $PATHvariable, in case echo $PATH doesn't return it, edit~/.bashrc and add a line like this: export PATH=/home/USER/bin/:$PATH). The script twitter.sh should contain the following: #!/bin/bash curl -u USER:PASS -d status="$*" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null echo "Message sent!" Replace USER and PASS with your Twitter username and password, and then make the script executable: chmod 755 ~/bin/twitter.sh And now test it: twitter.sh Hello, world! This is a test. So just use it as: twitter.sh YOUR MESSAGE