Over at Cerebral Mastication, you can find the code for a function that will allow you to send a status update to Twitter directly from the R console. The code's pretty short, so here it is in full: library("RCurl") opts <- curlOptions(header = FALSE, userpwd = "username:password", netrc = FALSE) tweet <- function(status){ method <- "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml?status=" encoded_s