A _very_ simple script that allows sending a file line-by-line as your tweets. Deletes line sent from file. Easy to hook up to Cron. Uses Basic auth.

twitlinesender.py

#!/bin/bash

# Usage: twitlinesender.py <lines.txt>

API_URL="http://api.twitter.com/1"
API_USER="YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME"
API_PASSWORD="YOUR_TWITTER_PASSWORD"

value=`cat $1 | head -n 1`
encoded_value=`python -c "import urllib; print urllib.quote('''$value''')"`

echo $value
echo $encoded_value

if [ ! -z $value ]
then
	curl -X POST -d "status=$encoded_value" -u $API_USER:$API_PASSWORD $API_URL/statuses/update.xml
	tmpfile=`mktemp`
	cat $1 | tail -n +2 > $tmpfile
	cat $tmpfile > $1
else
	echo "Empty string as status, not sending"
fi