.TH TWEET "1" "February 2013" "tweet" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
\fBtweet\fR \- Text-based client for Twitter.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tweet
[\fIoptions\fR] \fImessage\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IP
\fBtweet\fR is a text-based client that allows you to post messages to
Twitter.
.IP
.SH "OPTIONS AND DOCUMENTATION"
.HP
Options:
 \fB\-h\fR \fB\-\-help\fR : print this help
 \fB\-\-consumer\-key\fR : the twitter consumer key
 \fB\-\-consumer\-secret\fR : the twitter consumer secret
 \fB\-\-access\-key\fR : the twitter access token key
 \fB\-\-access\-secret\fR : the twitter access token secret
 \fB\-\-encoding\fR : the character set encoding used in input strings, e.g. "utf\-8". [optional]

.IP
.HP
Documentation:

If either of the command line flags are not present, the environment
variables TWEETUSERNAME and TWEETPASSWORD will then be checked for your
consumer_key or consumer_secret, respectively.
.IP
If neither the command line flags nor the environment variables are
present, the .tweetrc file, if it exists, can be used to set the
default consumer_key and consumer_secret.  The file should contain the
following three lines, replacing *consumer_key* with your consumer key, and
*consumer_secret* with your consumer secret:
.IP
A skeletal .tweetrc file:
.IP
 [Tweet]
 consumer_key: *consumer_key*
 consumer_secret: *consumer_password*
 access_key: *access_key*
 access_secret: *access_password*
.IP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
 <https://github.com/bear/python-twitter>
 <http://www.twitter.com>