Here's a command-line program to connect to Twitter and update and/or retrieve one's status. I wrote it so that I can use ALT+F2 'twit my new status' instead of opening a browser window. The GUI programs that are available through Ubuntu seemed to take too many steps just to update my status. I had to click too many things and I wanted a shortcut. I also plan to get my computers their own twitter accounts and use this script to keep me updated, especially when I send them to batch process a list of files for video encoding, compiling, etc. Perhaps this is something you may want to include in the python-twitter package. I would recommend it, I was pretty surprised not to find a 'twit' command on my computer. Features - no help or instructions (ok, that's lack of a feature) - reads from a configuration file ~/.twit/config - creates a config file if none exists and requests the username / password from the user Command `twit' will simply retrieve the status Command `twit a new status' will update the status Note: I made it so that quotes are not required on the new status. I found that to be too cumbersome so instead, the program will concatenate all the args except arg[0] and separate them with spaces. I'm experienced with PHP/Perl/C and others, but this is my first Python program. I hope it is OK for a small program. -Joseph Miller