Twittering from the command line

So I was experimenting with Twitter last night and started to use their RESTful services from the command line. 

Why you may ask? Well sometimes I just want to tweet something quickly and I don’t want to bother with opening a client or web page.  So I through together this simple bash script.

tweet()
  {
    curl -u : -d status=”$1″ http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
  }

Simply add this to your .bash_profile and you can tweet from the command line all day.

tweet “Tweeting from the command line is awesome!” 

I love RESTful services despite popular belief.  🙂