this article is fantastic.
to tweet from the command line, make sure you have wget installed and simply do the following:
wget –keep-session-cookies –http-user=youremail –http-password=yourpassw \
–post-data=”status=HOORAY!” \
http://twitter.com:80/statuses/update.xml
OR!
curl -u youremail:yourpassw -d status=â€HOORAY!” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
thank you, IBM, for distracting me even more tonight. i was not procrastinating nearly enough.