BLT: bash ♥ twitter

What it is

blt shows you what your twitter friends are doing while you're working at the commandline, in Linux, BSD, OS X and Cygwin under Windows. In more detail, it's a perl script which integrates the checking of twitter into bash(1). Think of it like biff(1) for twitter. It should be considered alpha at present. blt is released under the GPLv3 with no warranty.

Example

marnanel@charcoal:~$ firefox &
[1] 6730
<wombats> deliriously happy
marnanel@charcoal:~$ blt @wombats: watch out for her siblings
marnanel@charcoal:~$

How to get it

Type cpan App::BLT at your prompt; you will need ~/perl/bin in your path. Or, type sudo cpan App::BLT in which case everything should just work. If not, let me know (tthurman at gnome point org) and we can try to figure out why together.

blt is automatically set up based on questions it asks when you first run it.

Other places of interest

• The announcement of the most recent version.
• blt has a twitter of its own, of course, which you should follow if you want to know about new features and releases.