Friday, March 21, 2008

Howto Twitter From the Command Line in Ubuntu!


Twitter rocks, here is a quick n easy way to twitter from your console in any Unix system:



sudo apt-get install curl

sudo gedit /usr/bin/twitter

Now Paste this in gEdit and simply replace "yourusername" with your username and "yourpasswd" with your twitter passwd and ctrl-s to save, then alt-F4 to exit!


curl --basic --user "yourusername:yourpasswd" --data-ascii "status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json" -o /dev/null
echo Message Sent!


Then chmod for exec privileges:
chmod +x /usr/bin/twitter
All done! w00t! Now lets try it out :)

All you gotta do is:
twitter "message here without the quotes"
You dont even need to open the command line, all you gotta do is press alt-F2 and type twitter then your message, and dont forget to check "Run in Terminal"
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11 comments:

  1. [NpoWEr]March 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM

    You do have to include the quotes when you type characters like parenthesis. Dunno what else need this. ? and ; don't.

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  2. dirtvoylesMarch 24, 2008 at 9:43 AM

    Why would you want to tweet from CLI?

    I'm being smart, but not, with that statement. I mean, Twitter can be used from Fx, the website, your mobile, via email...

    I won't say it's pointless, because I use some pretty niche products, but it does seem odd to me.

    Still, glad to see more tips.

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  3. defconMarch 24, 2008 at 9:47 AM

    well sometime I personally dont have a window manager running, and I spend allot of time on the terminal so it is convenient for me, and probably others that use twitter and use the command line allot.

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  4. dirtvoylesMarch 24, 2008 at 10:02 AM

    kyle - I could see that, that's why I didn't want to call it "pointless". ;)

    Hey, if it works for one person, then it's worth it. I just use the CLI for maintenance, so it doesn't relate to me personally.

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  5. defconMarch 25, 2008 at 3:11 PM

    Mike, yes, africans do use ubuntu, afterall ubuntu is a african word meaning:
    A Zulu word, literally meaning “humanness.” Ubuntu is a social and spiritual philosophy serving as a framework for African society.
    I hope your not being racist, which I think you are, I will forgive you for that this time. I am not african but I have some beloved friends that are that use the command line daily, some that I know and I learn allot from, and then learning to adapt and deal with racism means that the racists have allot to learn from them as well.

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  6. nagTHEsnakemanApril 6, 2008 at 2:04 AM

    Waiting for your next post -- you seem to be on holiday.

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  7. dirtvoylesApril 7, 2008 at 7:29 AM

    I'm waiting too...

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  8. PalivizumabApril 7, 2008 at 7:47 AM

    Everything works fine until the line

    chmod +x /usr/bin/twitter

    then it says

    chmod: changing permissions of '/usr/bin/twitter': not permitted


    Any tips?

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  9. dirtvoylesApril 7, 2008 at 7:53 PM

    I think he forgot to put "sudo" in front of that command.

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  10. PalivizumabApril 8, 2008 at 8:17 AM

    yeah thanks dirtvoyles. :)

    Doesn't say sudo there, but I guess they expect people to assume that part of it.

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  11. defconApril 14, 2008 at 4:36 AM

    I got this idea from fsckn w/linux, and improved his idea with echo message sent and output to dev/null, and added twittering from alt F2

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