Name: Twitter Update via Command Line Created by: phalacee Website: http://www.phalacee.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/phalacee/ Released: 05 April 2007 License: None - Public Domain. Description: A simple tool that lets you post to Twitter from the Windows command-line or 'Run' dialog. Instructions: - Extract the contents of the archive to c:\windows. - Open c:\windows\twitter.bat in Notepad and enter your username and password at the end of the "set username=" and "set password=" lines. If your username was "TwitterUser" and your password was "SecretPassword" the lines would look like this: set username=TwitterUser set password=SecretPassword - Save the file and close Notepad. - Press the [Win-Key]+[R] at the same time (the [Win-Key] is that one with the Windows Icon on it). - Type in "twitter " (but without the quotation marks or the < > brackets). If you wanted to post a message saying: Using phalacee's command-line twitter updater You would type: twitter Using phalacee's command-line twitter updater *** NOTE: The message must be less than 140 characters still, so *** keep it short and sweet. *** NOTE: It's a good idea to use quotation marks to surround your *** message, especially if you have a website address in it.: *** twitter "Browsing http://www.phalacee.com/" - Press Enter. - A black box will appear with some information about the progress of the posting. Don't close it, it will disappear on its own after the post has been sent. - Check out your Twitter page, it will have been updated with the message you entered in. Notes: As you can see by looking at twitter.bat, this is a very simple tool. It doesn't do anything other than send what you feed it to the twitter website. It doesn't include any third party websites, and it doesn't store anything on your computer (it creates a copy of the update.xml file, but that is deleted). Further Development: I don't plan on taking this any further than I already have, I may see about adding in some character-counting controls that allow catch you if you go over the 140 character limit and then asks you to re-enter the post ... maybe.