Using R to send tweets

Question

I saw a cute demonstration of tweeting from R in a presentation some months ago. The scratch code used by the presenter is here:

http://www.r-bloggers.com/twitter-f

Answer 1

If twitteR does not work or you simply want to try to build it yourself ...

See here for a demo of how to do your own Twitter authentication and use of the API with help of the httr package.