buckket/twtxt

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2236 stars · 87 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging tool and format specification where your identity is a publicly accessible text file of timestamped posts. It ships a Python CLI client that fetches tracked feeds asynchronously and builds a personal timeline, integrating well with UNIX tools.

Use cases

• post status updates from the command line without a centralized platform
• follow other people's feeds by tracking their twtxt.txt URLs
• self-host a microblog as a plain text file on my own server
• read a decentralized timeline like a feedreader in the terminal
• pipe tweets using echo, date, and other shell utilities

When to choose

• you want a hacker-friendly, decentralized microblog with no signup or platform lock-in
• you prefer plain text files and UNIX tooling over web apps
• you want a lightweight CLI client with async feed fetching

When to avoid

• you need a graphical or web-based social media experience
• you want rich media, replies, or algorithmic timelines
• you need a large active social network rather than a niche protocol

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli http-client web-scraping social-media self-hosted privacy python cli cross-platform microblogging decentralized twtxt flat-file feedreader command-line linux macos

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