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Tweeting from the Commandline with curl

Aug 18, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

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Single quote the message

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 09:37.

Single quote the message to avoid having to append a space after the !

curl rules, thanks for the

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 08:58.

curl rules, thanks for the tip!

peace.

identi.ca

drdogwelder's picture
Submitted by drdogwelder (not verified) on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 21:58.

I'm guessing there could be a few people visiting this site who like to use the open-source microblogging site identi.ca. Just wanted to say that using this tip with identi.ca is just a url change at the end.
http://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.json

In case someone didn't know that already.

Twitter-gx

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Submitted by colindean on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 13:30.

Before I had a ton of follows, I wrote twitter-gx. It uses curl with some zenity magic if a gui is available. A few people use it these days as something which their server can update twitter.

old trick, but still very

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Submitted by ron1n (not verified) on Tue, 08/18/2009 - 13:21.

old trick, but still very useful. Thanks Shawn!