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The sys admin’s daily grind: TTYtter

TWITTERING MACHINE

Author(s): CHARLY KÜHNAST

Twitter, so everyone says, is modern, fun, sociologically illuminating and otherwise useless. Even Charly feeds a budgie – but at the console, it’s a question of style.

I would be lost without Thunderbird – but because I often spend hours in front of machines without X11, I keep on top of the good old command-line tools. For example, I love using the Mutt mail client, and both slrn for Usenet and Irssi for IRC run on a small root server in a screen session. Recently, I added another animal to
my console zoo: TTYtter.


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