Sending Tweets It's fairly easy to send Tweets from a Terminal in *nix systems. Just use this syntax: Code: curl -u username:password -d status='Tweeting from my Linux terminal' https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml 'username' is your Twitter username and 'password' is the password of your Twitter account. Note: it might be a good idea to clear the Terminal history because your account's password is displayed inside the command. Fetching your Timelime To fetch your timeline, use this command: Code: curl -s http://twitter.com/username | sed -e '//!d' | sed -n '/^$/!{s/<[^>]*>//g;p;}' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' Replace 'username' with your Twitter username.