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# rainbowstream

> Terminal-based Twitter client supporting realtime tweetstream, trends, sending, search, favorites and user management.
> Online help with `h`, up and down arrows for history, tab to auto-complete and 2-tab for suggestion.
> More information: <https://github.com/orakaro/rainbowstream>.

- Open RainbowStream:

`rainbowstream`

- Show your timeline (optional number of tweets to display, default is 5):

`home [{{num_of_last_tweets}}]`

- Show profile of a given user:

`whois @{{user}}`

- Tweet the message as-is:

`t {{message}}`

- Retweet the tweet with given ID (ID is beside the time):

`rt {{tweet_id}}`

- Favorite the tweet with given ID:

`fav {{tweet_id}}`

- Perform a search for a given word (with or without hashtag):

`s {{word}}`
