tweet using command line

tweet_command.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# tweet-1.0
# @author deepakkumar
# replace the user and passwd with your username and password
# the log will be available in file tweetlog  in the  current directory

import os
import sys
import time

if len(sys.argv)!=2:
	print “Usage ./{0} <your tweet in double quotes>”.format(sys.argv[0])
	quit(0)
log=”tweetlog”
tweet=sys.argv[1]
user=”username”
passwd=”pass”
if not os.path.exists(log):
	logfile=open(log,”w”)
else:
	logfile=open(log,”a”)
	_time=time.asctime()
send_command=”curl -u {0}:{1} -d status=\”{2}\” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml -o /dev/null –progress-bar”.format(user,passwd,tweet)
if os.system(send_command)==0:
	print(“successfully send”)
	logfile.writelines(_time+”  “+tweet+”\n”)
	print(“log updated”)
else:
	print(“sending failed”)
logfile.close()