Send a tweet to Twitter using Go.

This example code is a precursor for me while I am working on my hobby project ajtweet that I will be using to schedule tweets.

See my blog post for more details on how to explore the Twitter APIs and how I wrote this code.

NOTE: This uses the gotwi library for doing the heavy work.

Install the required go packages:

go mod tidy

Configure your Twitter API Key, Secret and OAuth 1 User token and secret.

cp env_example .env
# Edit the .env file.

Build the executable:

go build -o tweet .

Source the environment variables:

source .env

Send a tweet:

./tweet "Test: Hello world from golang"
tweet id 1527644512285343745