NSDiary

INTRO

Inspired by Oak, an iPhone app by 10to1 that quickly sends out a tweet without being bothered by reading other tweets and losing time. I wanted a similar thing on my mac so I “made” beech.

(+ I use two different user accounts at work and wanted to be able to tweet from both but only read from one)

Installing beech

Add the following to your .bash_profile :

function beech(){
/usr/bin/curl -u your_user_name:your_password -d status="$1" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml &>/dev/null
}

(that should be three lines of text)

Note: to quickly reload your .bash_profile you can do a)

pietjaspers$ source .bash_profile

Using beech

Now you can tweet via the terminal by doing:

pietjaspers$ beech "This is a tweet via 'beech'"

Update : Added .bash_profile reload trick