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Updating Your Twitter Status From a Script

Just a quick little script modified from the one found here http://cutup.org/anize/?twitter_bash_curl I hardcoded the username/password and stripped out the “friends” statuses. For my purposes (http://appliedresearchwi.com headline) I only need “my” current status. The script is run from crontab as follows: */5 * * * * /home/zachpeters/appliedresearchwi.com/etc/twitter.sh > /home/zachpeters/appliedresearchwi.com/etc/twitter.status Code – note the “username” and [...]