TWITTER_USERNAME="USERNAME" TWITTER_PASSWORD="PASSWORD" export TERM="xterm-color" BLUE="\033[1;36m" WHITE="\033[1;37m" TWEET=$@ VERSION="1.0" HEADER="--header \"X-Twitter-Client: Twitter Shell\" --header \"X-Twitter-Client-Version: $VERSION\" --header \"X-Twitter-Client-URL: 'http://davidcancel.com/projects/'\"" curl --silent --basic --user "$TWITTER_USERNAME:$TWITTER_PASSWORD" $HEADER --data-ascii "status=$TWEET" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json" >/dev/null echo echo -ne "$BLUE Twitter status now: $WHITE $TWEET" echo echo