gistfile1.txt

[whatever@server ~]$ curl http://api.twitter.com/1/account/rate_limit_status.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hash>
  <reset-time type="datetime">2010-04-17T02:00:08+00:00</reset-time>
  <remaining-hits type="integer">19963</remaining-hits>
  <hourly-limit type="integer">20000</hourly-limit>
  <reset-time-in-seconds type="integer">1271469608</reset-time-in-seconds>
</hash>
[whatever@server ~]$ lol