twitter

Twitter is a fun micro-blogging service, but I'm not a huge fan of the web interface for it. Fortunately the kind folks at Twitter have made an API available and many third party applications have sprung up to use it.

Twyt is an easy to use and powerful way to work with Twitter from the command line. You can install it from a terminal in Debian and Ubuntu using:

# aptitude update && aptitude install python-twyt