Error from bash I've never seen before.

Hello,

I was just trying to run a short script that allows me to Tweet on
Twitter from the command line, and got a strange error I don't know how
to diagnose. Here is the error message -

ray@RaysComputer:~$ Tweet.sh "OPB Radio rocks the state of Oregon!"
bash: !": event not found
ray@RaysComputer:~$

I don't think it's a script error, as I have been using it with no
problems, and the error message seems to be complaining about the
exclamation mark at the end of my command line for some reason that I
have no clue about.

Just in case it's the script causing the error, here is it's code as well -

#!/bin/bash
curl -u "username":"password" -d status="$*"
http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml > /dev/null
echo "Tweet, tweet!!!"

Note that I have replaced my username, and password in the script with
those words so as not to endanger my Twitter account with this posting. 8-)

Thanks for any help you can be.

Later, Ray Parrish

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