Using the terminal to update Twitter

Question

Trying to update twitter using the terminal. curl and wget codes I have found are not working, it looks like Twitter has updated the way it authenticates, is it still possible to update Twitter from command line?

This code is just saying Basic authentication is not supported. curl -u user -d status="Tweeting from the shell" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

Answer 1

Twitter has phased out basic authentication, and require that your client uses OAuth instead.

Fear not, you can still tweet directly from the command line, but it's a bit more hassle to set up. On way is to follow this guide to authenticate and use a python script.