[ Thanks to Matthew Casperson for this
link. ]
“Twitter will be forcing the use of OAuth for all
access to their API from August 2010. If you use the Twitter API
from the command line rather than having your shiny GUI client
taking care of OAuth for you, there are some options to make the
transition as painless as possible. Twurl“The first port of call is project called Twurl. Twurl is a Ruby
library that provides a command line interface, inspired by the
popular CURL library, that also neatly wraps up the required OAuth
authorization.“There are a few tricks to making sure Twurl works as
advertised:”