Executor is my new favorite launcher replacing the old love, FARR. It is extremely fast, intuitive and easy to use. I have been using it for the last two days to launch files, folders, web pages and to browse folders. Thanks to a comment at Lifehacker blog post, below are the steps to send a tweet from within Executor input box. Note that there will be no indication of number of characters left out of 140 and no URL shortening.

1. Download NirCmd from here. Place nircmd.exe in any location of your choice. In my case, C:\Documents and Settings\I034708\My Documents\My Dropbox\nircmd.exe
2. Download Curl from here. Place curl.exe in the same folder where you kept nircmd.exe.
3. Add a new keyword in Executor. Put the path of nircmd.exe in the Command field. Set Parameter as

   exec hide curl --basic --user TwitterUN:TwitterPW --data status="$P$" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
   

   where TwitterUN and TwitterPW are your Twitter username and password.

   If you are behind a corporate proxy, modify the Parameter to add a proxy switch like so:

   exec hide curl --basic --proxy <ProxyName>:<ProxyPort> --user TwitterUN:TwitterPW --data status="$P$" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
   

   

That’s it. Now you can start updating your Twitter by bringing up Executor and typing your message after the keyword.

Here’s the link to corresponding forum thread.

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