4 twat \- Twat twats tweets so you don't have to Twitter.
8 \fBtwat\fR [\fBOPTIONS\fR] [\fBUSERNAMES\fR]
13 Twat takes no input proper; instead, it takes a list of usernames from
14 either the command-line or the ~/.twatrc file, and watches those
20 Any new tweets from watched users are written to stdout. If to/from
21 email addresses are provided (either on the command-line or in
22 ~/.twatrc), then sendmail will be used to email the new tweet to the
23 specified \fIfrom\fR address.
28 Twat watches a list of Twitter timelines, and writes any new tweets to
29 stdout. It can also optionally email the new tweets to a given email
32 New tweets are gathered at a fixed interval, specified in seconds by
33 the \fB\-\-heartbeat\fR (default: 600) option.
35 Twat uses the Twitter API, which now requires you to have a developer
36 account. You can sign up for free at https://dev.twitter.com/. Once
37 you have done this, you can authorize your own account to access
38 itself. You will then be given four tokens, which need to be fed to
52 .IP \fB\-\-consumer-key\fR
53 Your Twitter API consumer key.
55 .IP \fB\-\-consumer-secret\fR
56 Your Twitter API consumer secret.
58 .IP \fB\-\-access-token\fR
59 Your Twitter API access token.
61 .IP \fB\-\-access-secret\fR
62 Your Twitter API access secret.
64 .SH CONFIGURATION FILE
67 The file ~/.twatrc can contain any of the options (and usernames) that
68 would otherwise be specified on the command-line.
73 Send bugs to michael@orlitzky.com.