I'm a command line junkie. I crave the command-line like addicts crave heroin. Okay, maybe a little bit less.
In an effort to spend more time on the command-line, and less time in my web browser, I created a little utility that allows me to tweet from the prompt. I call it tweet.
It's going to make me more productive. So, now I won't have to feel bad about twitter's victory. It will make you more productive too.
You use it like this:
$ tweet "I'm going to walk my dog."
You download it like this:
$ sudo gem install giraffesoft-tweet
You fork it from here.
See the README for the config file syntax.
That is all.
Or if you haven't added gems.github.com as a permanent source:
sudo gem install giraffesoft-tweet --source=http://gems.github.com
;-)
I'm sure I saw this somewhere else, but I can't find it now.
And what about setting the user agent? I'd like people to know that I'm leet when I post from the command line! ;-)
I thought I had seen it too, but I couldn't seem to find something, so I rolled my own.
As for the user agent, I just applied to twitter for that feature. Hopefully they'll accept soon :)
This is awesome since the Google Talk bot is always down. Thanks!
I just got done walking my dog. Thought you might like to know.
I wonder how many other developers have built their own little app to do the same thing. Now all you need is a way to grab tweets into a log and tail it, and you're in business...