Tweetshell is a command line twitter application which can be used to manage your tweets as well as keep track of what is happening in twitter land. But what is really unique about this command line application is that it runs from within your web browser.

Tweetshell allows you to manage your tweets and keep track of other users’ tweets from within its command line environment.

To login to your twitter account from tweetshell, enter the command ssh -i oauth and press enter. This will take you to the twitter login page where you can enter your twitter user name and password and sign in. By doing so, you are able to use tweetshell to post messages to your twitter account without having to share your Twitter password.

A number of well known commands in Linux can be used from within tweetshell. For example -

To get information about a twitter user, use the finger command. Try the following command in twitter shell to know the followers and latest tweet associated with this website.

guest@twitter.com:/> finger linuxandfriends

To get the latest three tweets from linuxandfriends, enter the following command:

guest@twitter.com:/>ls linuxandfriends | head -n 3

You can use link (ln) and unlink to follow a twitter user and stop following respectively.

To know more about the various commands that can be used in tweetshell, type the help command.

Tweetshell is a very nice shell for twitter that lives in your web browser.

If you like twitter shell, You will definitely be interested in checking out Google shell.