Tweet

What is Tweet?

Tweet is my command line twitter client. It lets you send and receive “tweets” directly from the command line. Tweet allows you to keep up to date with your Twitter friends without having to open a web browser. Tweet is targeted at IT Savvy users who often have a console window open.

It has been tested on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

How do I get it?

  1. Simply download Tweet and follow the on screen instructions. It will install all the pre-requisites automatically.

Demo


Get Microsoft Silverlight

Getting started

You don’t run Tweet from the Start menu like most programs. By default it will be installed in your system path. This means that Windows can find the program without you having to say exactly where it is installed (by default you’ll find Tweet in C:\Program Files\i-think22.net\Tweet). Open up a Command Prompt window (or PowerShell) and type “tweet” to get started.

It will ask for your username and password for twitter and then download and display the 20 latest messages. From here on out it will continue to use your credentials to automatically download and display any messages that have been sent since you last checked. It doesn’t currently display your own updates (maybe that’s something that can be changed in a future version).

To update your status, simply enclose it in quotes like so:

tweet "Having fun with Twitter from the command line"

You can also use Tweet to reply to a message like so:

tweet --reply

This will allow you to select from one of you recently received updates (currently only the last 50) to compose a reply. Replies are linked to the original message.

My favourite feature of Tweet is the --visit option which lets you open a website that has been mentioned. It will only show the messages that have links in them to select. If a message has multiple links it will let you choose between them.

tweet --visit

If you need further help, try this command:

tweet --help

What about Proxies?

Tweet uses the proxy settings from Internet Explorer

Error: SQL Compact might not be installed

Sometimes SQL compact may not install properly and you will see the following message (and Tweet will crash):

Unable to load database. SQL Compact might not be installed
Unable to load DLL ’sqlceme35.dll’: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0×8007007E)

You can download SQL Compact directly from Microsoft: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123282

What’s next?

I have a number of ideas for more features for Tweet, but would like to here yours, so please click on the Feedback tab on this page and give me your suggestions. Alternatively directly visit our feedback site: http://feedback.i-think22.net/

Some things I have in mind include: Plugin support, TinyURL expansion, Automatic Updates and Better history browsing.

License Terms

Tweet is licensed for use free of charge and without any warranty (of any kind). You are not permitted to repackage or resell Tweet and may not redistribute it without prior permission.

What about an MSI?

Tweet is distributed as an MSI. The executable helps sort out the pre-requisites (.NET Framework 3.5 and SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1). If you already have these requirements you can install from the MSI directly. It’s located at http://tweet.i-think22.net/TweetSetup.msi

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