Twitter API

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API

Update Status

For this very task, we can simply use Twitter’s API :

 curl --basic --user username:password --data status="Having fun with cURL" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Let’s explain this snippet a bit :

 --basic --user username:password

as explained in the API help, the API is password protected by a “Basic Auth”. This takes care of it, by providing your Twitter username and password to the Basic Auth required by the API.

 --data status="Having fun with cURL"

this is the data that will be sent to the API, actually the new status, which will be wrapped in a POST HTTP request.

 http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

last but not least, this is the URL of the API

Source: http://www.sakana.fr/blog/2007/03/18/scripting-twitter-with-curl/