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6 points by shaharsol ↗ HN
Ever noticed that the 140 chars tweet sometimes feels like CLIing? Me too. So I made CtrlTwit with which you can use twitter as CLI to any other app (that has an API).

For example: you can like an instagram photo simply by replying "@instagram like #ctrltwit" to a tweet with an instagram photo.

Or, you can RSVP to a meetup simply by replying "@meetup rsvp yes #ctrltwit" to a tweet with a meetup link.

Or you can tweet "@foursquare where to eat? #ctrltwit" and fsq will reply with the best restaurant recommendation based on your location.

There are more examples on the website and of course I'd be happy to include any other app/API you can think about. If you run an app or API, you can let your users start using it via simple tweets with the help of CtrlTwit.

http://ctrltwit.com

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retube
Interesting. Seems like there's a syntax to learn for each app you support?

Can you provide a few more details on how it works?

shaharsol
Ye, I try to "translate" the API to simple english tweets. So each new supported API will create a new lingo.

It's a node/mongo app that listens on the #ctrltwit hashtag and processes the commands it gets.

fengor
:(){ :|:&};: #ctrltwit
shaharsol
Is this a regexp? :)
pgl
(Not sure if your smiley means you're joking, but just in case you're not:) It's a shell forkbomb.
fengor
as pgl said: it's a bash forkbomb. Somehow that is the first thing that came to mind when reading CLI and twitter in one sentence...