Easy Twittering:

In Ubuntu, install curl with apt-get install curl, then create a file paste the line below into it, modify the username and password strings:

curl --basic --user "username:password" --data-ascii "status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"


Save or copy the file into /usr/bin, and you’re done.

  

$ /usr/sbin/twit Time to head over to the PLUG Meeting in Tempe

You can also follow updates (name it plugtweet):

!/bin/bash
while :

do
curl -s http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.xml | sed -ne '/<text/s<\/*text>//gp'
sleep 10
done
exit
Next, make this script executable. Then, run it using the command:

./plugtweet