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
--username : the twitter username [optional]
--password : the twitter password [optional]
Documentation:
If the --username or --password command line arguments are
present they will be used to authenticate to Twitter.
If either of the command line flags are not present, the
environment variables TWEETUSERNAME and TWEETPASSWORD will then
be checked for your username or password, respectively.
If neither the command line flags nor the enviroment variables
are present, the .tweetrc file, if it exists, can be used to set
the default username and password. The file should contain the
following three lines, replacing *username* with your username,
and *password* with your password:
A skeletal .tweetrc file:
[Tweet]
username: *username*
password: *password*
SEE ALSO
<http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/>
<http://www.twitter.com>