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Twimailer Enhances Twitter Follow Notifications

2009-03-05T03:03:00Z

Twimailer is a new service that provides a simple, yet extremely useful function: It enhances the standard Twitter email notification with lots of good information on the new follower including recent tweets, follower and following stats, and more. Thanks go to Amber Case (@caseorganic) for the heads-up.

]]> Twimailer is fairly ingenious, and set-up is simple. You start by providing the service an email address. Next, Twimailer gives you an email address to stick in to your Twitter settings for sending notifications. Once you've confirmed everything and Twitter is updated, that's it. Sit back and wait for your next follower.

We love things that make our life simpler, and Twimailer is about as straightforward as you can get. The enhanced email provides a bounty of information about the person that has followed you, and of course provides a link to their profile so you can follow them back. However, we do have to mention some security considerations with a service like this.

First, it stores your email address. Although the site says that it doesn't spam or store email bound for you, it doesn't mention what it does (if anything) with your actual email address. Especially with no fine print, Twimailer may just disappear tomorrow with that information in tow. Second, more than just new follower notifications are sent from Twitter. What happens to direct messages and password reset confirmations? These are risks you will need to think about before signing up.

Amber also wrote about Twimailer and points out a method using Google Mail (or Gmail) that lets you get around having to hand over all email control to Twimailer. Although a bit technical, Chris Messina (@chrismessina on Twitter) describes the process here.

Comment from David Jame on 2010-11-23

2010-11-23T09:16:24Z

Simple Method Twitter To Follow Back those who follow you With One Single Click

If you are a power user of Twitter, then you will surely have a number of followers and you will also be following many. But what if you are having many followers whom you aren't following or may have missed to follow? You could find them one by one and start following them. But do you think it is a wise method if you have hundreds of followers whom you want to follow? I don't think so! So here is a simple method to do that.

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The debate over whether you should follow everyone who follows you on Twitter has raged on ever since the popular microblogging service gained traction. Some say following everyone eliminates the real value Twitter provides--connecting with others of similar interests. Others say that following everyone actually provides more value.

But if you consider some of the finer points of following everyone who follows you on Twitter, I think you might come to the realization, just as I have, that following everyone is not just a responsible move on your part, it's good of the entire community.

"Following many people doesn't hurt your follower count "

Some say that following all your followers makes you look bad to the Twitter community and your follower count will actually decrease because of it. I'm not sure where this rumor started, but there's absolutely no evidence of that being true.

In fact, online marketing firm Hubspot released a report titled "State of the Twittersphere" recently, and found that there's a "strong correlation between the number of people you follow and the number of followers you have."

It makes sense: Twitter is, by its very nature, a viral service. If you follow just one person on Twitter, you're then exposed to their entire list of followers and in turn, they're exposed to your list. Engaging each other in conversation puts you in front of more people, who then have the option of following you themselves. In the process, everyone adds followers and has the option of getting to know more people.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

Comment from kelebek on 2009-09-24

2009-09-24T21:07:26Z

We were launched a few weeks ago in private beta. would be very happy hehe :)

Comment from John Piercy on 2009-03-27

2009-03-27T12:50:27Z

Anyone know how to get in touch with someone twimailer.
There http://twitter.com/twimailer doesnt exist

There is no other contact info on there web http://twimailer.com/

Thanks

John Piercy

Comment from Andy on 2009-03-09

2009-03-10T05:20:59Z

Twimailer only asks for the email but Topify asks for both email and Twitter account.

On top of that, Topify is not even launched yet!

I'll stick with http://twimailer.com

Comment from Toni on 2009-03-09

2009-03-10T05:08:11Z

http://twimailer.com is great! Loving it.

Comment from Brandon Blattner on 2009-03-07

2009-03-08T01:13:13Z

For some reason I can't get this thing to work....
REALLY, all I want is an invite to Topify...anyone have any extras they can spare? I would be VERY appreciative!

EMAIL: brandonblattner@gmail

TWITTER: @masemase

Thanks in advance either way!

Comment from Phil Glockner on 2009-03-05

2009-03-05T19:26:46Z

@vibhu, it may sound obvious, but what I am trying to convey in my post is that, although emails are not stored, the email address is (and has to be, obviously).. but more importantly, the page has no privacy policy covering the address -- just the email. Does that make sense?

Comment from Heather Steele on 2009-03-05

2009-03-05T16:55:15Z

Thanks for sharing this, I have been saying for a while now I wish the notifications had more detail

Comment from Anuj Seth - Twitdom on 2009-03-05

2009-03-05T15:14:10Z

Nice app!

I've listed this into Twitdom - Twitter Applications Database.

Comment from Remco on 2009-03-05

2009-03-05T10:46:54Z

Another concern I have is if they receive your e-mail from Twitter, in theory they could request or reset your password. I trust anyone with a spiffy website...but to me this is a real security concern which they don't adress on their website.

Anyone else feel this way?

Comment from Vibhu Norby on 2009-03-05

2009-03-05T09:10:35Z

"First, it stores your email address. Although the site says that it doesn't spam or store email bound for you, it doesn't mention what it does (if anything) with your actual email address. Especially with no fine print, Twimailer may just disappear tomorrow with that information in tow."

Phil, think about this again. You can't think of a reason why they might store the email addresses that they, uh... use to send the emails to???

Comment from Jekar on 2009-03-05

2009-03-05T08:00:39Z

Again a new services for twitter!

Comment from Yoram Roth on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T07:42:56Z

Must have been hard to find a name for this service (or is it just an app, or a whole 2.0 company?)

Twitmail? Tweetmail? Certainly this one lacks verbal comfort.

Comment from Nokia offers a game N-Gage on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T07:09:22Z

It seems to me that this kind of feature improvement is something that Twitter should really do itself, but of course it’s great to see someone from the community pitch in and add incremental value until Twitter gets around to it.

Comment from Michael Fidler on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T06:58:43Z

Sounds to good to pass up. I'll have to take a chance regarding the security issues. Nice write up, and thanks for the tip!

Comment from Ouriel on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T06:06:57Z

coming to your mail box. hope you enjoy it!

Comment from Phil Glockner on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T05:56:22Z

Zee and Ouriel, thanks for pointing me toward Topify! It does sound interesting and I'd like to take a look at it.

Would you be able to send a few invites to tips@readwriteweb.com so that all the writers here at RWW can look at it? Thanks!

Comment from Ouriel on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T05:33:50Z

Phil, i d love you to try http://topify.com which a more evolved service allowing you to follow back without leaving your inbox

We were launched a few weeks ago in private beta. would be very happy to send you an invite. Shoot me an email on ouriel dot ohayon at GMAIL dot com

Comment from Caleb on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T05:11:44Z

Quite interesting, may just give this a whirl, seem to be getting more followers recently and I would love to know more about them at a glance. Thanks for the tip Phil.

Caleb

Comment from Zee on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T03:22:35Z

I reviewed Twimailer a few days ago - and although good, it's nothing on Topify which lets you receive profiles, reply to follow them back and send dm's via email. Wrote about them earlier today: http://thenextweb.com/2009/03/04/topify-do-everything-with-twitter-via-email/

Plus, from what i've heard Twimailer cloned the idea from Topify: http://twitter.com/TechCrunch/status/1275620534 . Not that more than one company can't do the same thing...