Twitter from C#

Twitter from C#

How do you update your status from C#. Looking at the twitter API (which is REST  based), which has a link to a blog article on how to post to twitter from c#:

[OperationContract]
public void SubmitUserStatus(string username, string tweet)
{
    // encode the username/password
    string user = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(username + ":" + password));
    // determine what we want to upload as a status
    byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("status=" + tweet);
    // connect with the update page
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml");
    // set the method to POST
    request.Method = "POST";
    // thanks to argodev for this recent change!
    request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;
    // set the authorisation levels
    request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + user);
    request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    // set the length of the content
    request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
    // set up the stream
    Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();
    // write to the stream
    reqStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
    // close the stream
    reqStream.Close();
}