twittercat.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Hacky 'IRCCat for twitter' (see http://github.com/RJ/irccat)
# Usage: ./twittercat.sh
# echo "my tweet" | nc -q0 localhost 9999

PORT=9999
USERNAME="your_twitter_name"
PASSWORD="your_twitter_password"

while [ 1 ]
do
  tweet=`nc -q0 -l -p $PORT`
  if [ -n $tweet ]
  then
    echo "Tweeting: $tweet"
    curl -u ${USERNAME}:${PASSWORD} -d status="$tweet" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml &
  fi
done