Easiest way to send tweet to Twitter with Php

Twitter is all around us.
People are tweet to the friends , colleagues, client and to the world.
Php provide in built function which allow to send tweet to you twitter account without any need of third party library .
Below is the code in php that will allow the functionality.

array(
    'method'  => 'POST',
    'header'  => sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode($username.':'.$password)).
                 "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
    'content' => http_build_query(array('status' => $message)),
    'timeout' => 5,
  ),
));
$ret = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml', false, $context);

return false !== $ret;
}

tweet('From PHP, yeah...', 'userName', 'passwordxxxx');

?>

Where in function
tweet('From PHP, yeah...', 'userName', 'passwordxxxx');
userName = your twitter username
passwordxxx = your twitter account password

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