Given that Twitter is predominately a text only media, there is a certain logic in using a console based app to engage in this form of microblogging. Using Twitter with a console app lends a number of advantages such as speed, flexibility, and reliability.
The purpose of this article is to identify useful console based Twitter clients. Console based applications are light on system resources (very useful on low spec machines), can be faster and more efficient than their graphical counterparts, and are ideal for scripting purposes.
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