Author: slac3dork
Site: http://snippet.c0de.me
Summary: Simple bash script to update twitter status. You may need install cURL.
Usage: ./filename.sh “your tweet”
#!/bin/bash
#
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# http://snippet.c0de.me
# slac3dork@gmail.com
username="YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME"
password="YOUR_TWITTER_PASSWORD"
tweet=$1
length=`echo $tweet | wc -m`
if [ $length -gt 140 ]; then
echo "Your tweet is longer than 140 characters"
else
xml=`curl -k -u $username:$password -d status="$tweet" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml`
echo "$xml"
fi
