Helper Function for tweeting with twurl

tweet.sh

# Helper function for tweeting via twurl
# You must have the twurl Ruby gem installed and configured https://github.com/marcel/twurl
# This function goes in your bash profile
# Usage: tweet "This is a command line tweet"

function tweet {
	twurl -q -d "status=$1" /1/statuses/update.xml
}

This is a little helper function for using twurl to tweet from the command line. It's more convenient than the aliasing they provide.

Put it in your bash profile

https://github.com/marcel/twurl

First you have to install and configure twurl. It's easy.

After that paste this function into your bash profile. Restart your terminal and try the example.

tweet "This is a command line tweet"