CLI Twitter and Oauth

Since twitter no longer allows the "basic" authentication mechanism for posting tweets, it has moved over to a much more secure alternative: OpenAuth

Before it was as easy as creating a cURL line to post the contents to the twitter api. Things have gotten more complicated since then. I could describe everything, but someone else has already done a fine job of the walk-through:

http://talkfast.org/2010/05/31/twitter-from-the-command-line-in-python-using-oauth