NAME¶

tweet - Text-based client for Twitter.

SYNOPSIS¶

tweet [options] message

DESCRIPTION¶

tweet is a text-based client that allows you to post messages to Twitter.

OPTIONS AND DOCUMENTATION¶

Options:
-h --help : print this help
--consumer-key : the twitter consumer key
--consumer-secret : the twitter consumer secret
--access-key : the twitter access token key
--access-secret : the twitter access token secret
--encoding : the character set encoding used in input strings, e.g. "utf-8". [optional]

Documentation:

If either of the command line flags are not present, the environment variables TWEETUSERNAME and TWEETPASSWORD will then be checked for your consumer_key or consumer_secret, respectively.

If neither the command line flags nor the environment variables are present, the .tweetrc file, if it exists, can be used to set the default consumer_key and consumer_secret. The file should contain the following three lines, replacing *consumer_key* with your consumer key, and *consumer_secret* with your consumer secret:

A skeletal .tweetrc file:

[Tweet]
consumer_key: *consumer_key*
consumer_secret: *consumer_password*
access_key: *access_key*
access_secret: *access_password*

SEE ALSO¶

<https://github.com/bear/python-twitter>
<http://www.twitter.com>