If you ever notice TCP connections to servers ending in 1e100.net, such as gw-in-f19.1e100.net or gx-in-f125.1e100.net for example, be aware that these are Google servers. 1e100 is another way of writing the mathematical phrase 10^100, or googol. They are used for things like Google Talk, etc. Port 5222 is used for the XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) chat protocol. Port 443 is used for HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over SSL/TLS) secure communications.

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Use the wget command line tool to post a status update on your twitter account

wget --http-user=yourusername --http-password=yourpassword --post-data="status=what you want to say" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

You can download wget for windows here:
http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
or here:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

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