bti replacement, because Twittre decided to shut down API version 1.0 and break clients...

send-alert

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import requests
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1

if __name__ == '__main__':
    consumer_key = '...'
    consumer_secret = '...'
    access_token_key = '...'
    access_token_secret = '...'

    api_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json'
    auth = OAuth1(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token_key, access_token_secret, signature_type='auth_header')

    message = {
        'status': len(sys.argv) > 1 and ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]) or sys.stdin.read(),
    }

    if not message['status']:
        print 'No input data, bailing out!'
        exit(1)

    requests.post(api_url, message, auth=auth)