twttr

Use Twitter from the comfort of your terminal.

twttr

Timeline

When you first launch twttr, you will see your home timeline. Press →/n/j/l and ←/p/k/h to traverse through your timeline tweet by tweet.

Help

Press ? to access help which shows you the keybindings to navigate around.

Refresh

Press r to reload your home timeline.

Compose Tweet

Press c to compose a new tweet and type what's on your mind, hit enter to share with the world right from your terminal.

Installation

Install twttr with Go.

go install github.com/maaslalani/twttr@latest

Important: You will also need Twitter's twurl for twttr to function properly.

Install twurl with any package manager.

# Gem
gem install twurl

# Arch Linux (btw)
yay -S ruby-twurl

# Nix
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.twurl

Setup

To run twttr, you will need a Twitter development account which can be created from the Twitter Developer's Page.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access

After you have that access you can create a Twitter app and generate a consumer key and secret.

When you have your consumer key and its secret you authorize your Twitter account to make API requests with that consumer key and secret.

twurl authorize --consumer-key key \
                --consumer-secret secret

Essentially, if you can run the following command with twurl successfully, twttr should work without issue.

twurl /2/users/me

See Twurl's Getting Started section for more details.