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Created July 8, 2009 18:44
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# $ tweet Hi mom!
#
# Put this in ~/.bashrc or wherever.
# If it doesn't work, make sure your ~/.netrc is right
#
# (Thanks to @anildigital and @grundprinzip for curl-fu)
function tweet {
curl -n -d status="$*" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml --insecure &> /dev/null
echo "tweet'd"
}
# put this in ~/.netrc
machine twitter.com
login USERNAME
password PASSWORD
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