Actually, HTTP Auth worked up until April 13th of this year if you used source=twitterandroid as one of the GET parameters -- they finally closed that backdoor. I know because that's the day all my code broke and I had to bite the bullet and implement OAUTH.
I'm now using twurl, which a twitter-specific OAUTH enabled command line twitter client that is just about a drop in a replacement for curl in the places you'd use curl to access twitter. https://github.com/marcel/twurl
I'm now using twurl, which a twitter-specific OAUTH enabled command line twitter client that is just about a drop in a replacement for curl in the places you'd use curl to access twitter. https://github.com/marcel/twurl