Tuxarena posted an easy to follow guide to allow “twitting” from command-line without the need of any graphical GUI manager.
Now who says you can’t do anything without a graphical desktop manager?
The full article/tutorial here at TuxArena ” How to Post to Twitter from Command-line “
Once you have set it up, try the command below..
twitter.sh SGLNX:Singapore's Local Linux News Matters : http://bit.ly/7LNiua