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Send-PicTweet

Sat Jan 18, 2020 4:58 pm

NAME Send-PicTweet



SYNOPSIS

This uploads a picture using the chunked Twitter upload and sends a tweet witht the message.





SYNTAX

Send-PicTweet [-Message] <String> [-PathtoPic] <String> [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

Unlike tweeting with from browser or smartphone Media Upload is handled seperately from the tweet process in the

TwitterAPI.

The media data must be uploaded first and the provided media_id is used in the tweet.

This function combines both mechanisms to one function.





PARAMETERS

-Message <String>

Enter the message that the tweet should include

Example: '-message "Hello World"'



Required? true

Position? 1

Default value

Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue, ByPropertyName)

Accept wildcard characters? false



-PathtoPic <String>

Enter the Path to the image you want to include in the tweet. File must be smaller than 5MB. (Twitter

Restriction)

Example: '-PathtoPic "C:\\temp\\test.jpg"'



Required? true

Position? 2

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS



-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Send-PicTweet -Message "Hello World" -PathtoPic "C:\\temp\\test.jpg"



This uploads the test.jpg file to twitter and then sends a tweet with the provided message as well as the media_id

received by the upload











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