you can update your twitter status and follow feeds using linux shell, this is a quick tip for linux lover’s, this is the reason i prefer linux over other operating systems is it’s total usefullnes,
to post your status on twitter type:
curl -s -u username:password -d status="your_status_message goes here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null
replace username, password and message to post with the your own.
to follow feeds from twitter.
curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep title | sed -e 's/]*>//g'
replace username and password with your own. above command will retrieve recent rss entries from your twitter timeline.
one more cool thing you can do with this long command is to enclose it put it in a text file, let’s say “/usr/local/bin/get-twits” and make it exectuable by issuing
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/get-twits
now open a new terminal windows and type: watch --interval=60 get-twits
this command will keep your terminal windows updated with recent twitter updates.
enjoy 
