I automated a twitter update from a random fortune quote, using python and the tweepy library.
First i installed tweepy
# pip install tweepy
Then, created /opt/bin/tweepy
#!/opt/bin/python
import tweepy, sys, commands
quote=commands.getoutput("/opt/bin/fortune")
consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret = "xxxxxx", "xxxx", "xxx", "xxx"
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
#print "Successfully logged in as " + api.me().name + "."
api.update_status(quote)
And.. that’s it!. As easy as 1..2..