Update twitter via curl

curl -u user -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Doesn't require password (asks for it instead)

Sample Output

Enter host password for user 'matthewbauer':

By: matthewbauer

2009-08-05 02:24:01

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Update twitter via curl
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curl -u user:pass -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

adamm9 · 2009-02-05 18:33:23 77
Update twitter via curl (and also set the "from" bit)

An improvement of the original (at: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/2872/update-twitter-via-curl) in the sense that you see a "from cURL" under your status message instead of just a "from API" ;-) Twitter automatically links it to the cURL home page. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
Enter host password for user 'twitter-username':
```
14

curl -u twitter-username -d status="Hello World, Twitter!" -d source="cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

MyTechieself · 2009-12-08 14:54:33 17
another tweet function

This version of tweet() doesn't require you to put quotes around the body of your tweet... it also prompts you for password. It will still barf on a '!' character.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
7

tweet () { curl -u UserName -d status="$*" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml; }

bartonski · 2009-11-07 06:54:02 5

Twitter update from terminal (pok3's snipts ?)

Found it on snipt, pok3, is it yours? I put my user = m33600, the password and the status was my robot message: Settima robot message: ALARM ZONE 3 (sent via command line). Now bots may have their identity on twitter... Show Sample Output

curl -u YourUsername:YourPassword -d status="Your status message go here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

m33600 · 2009-06-27 21:47:48 12

Update twitter via curl as Function

Type the command in the terminal and press enter to create the tweet() function. Then run as follows: tweet MyTwitterAccount "My message goes here" It will prompt you for password. Make sure that you use escape "\" character in message for showing varialbles or markup.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
0

tweet(){ curl -u "$1" -d status="$2" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"; }

Code_Bleu · 2009-08-23 16:56:24 108

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What do you think?

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