I've tried, but the lowest I could get is around the 230-240 mark for something that tweets hi $n (where $n is the name of the person tweeting something you're

I've tried, but the lowest I could get is around the 230-240 mark for something that tweets hi $n (where $n is the name of the person tweeting something you're interested in) for bash. It seems the URLs are the killer. URL Shorteners would help but bleh security. Any ideas for different languages?