Get The Most Out Of Twitter Email Notifications: Topify and Twimailer

Saturday, March 14, 2009

As soon as you use Twitter more and more, you’ll quickly realize how irrelevant are the emails you receive when a new user starts following you. To be honest, I disabled them since it’s just new junk on my inbox.

I rather prefer to give a look at my followers’ page and check new followers one at a time.

The story would change if a service could manage those emails and make them more useful, effective and interactive. After some research on Twitter I came accross two services which made this happen: Topify and Twimailer.

Both services create a new email address linked to your Twitter profile and ask you to insert that one in place of yours in your Twitter settings. They basically act as a “proxy” which receives the original emails from Twitter, processes them and put together more useful information about the new followers.

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They also both add a button to quickly follow back the user who just started following so that you don’t have to look at his/her profile. One of the differences between Topify and Twimailer is that the former just inserts the last tweet of the user, while Twimailer more posts.

The idea behind those services, very similar, is very useful and it definitely adds a lot of value to the “raw” information provided by Twitter through those emails. The downside is that I can’t (I haven’t found it, at least) receive just one daily email with all my new followers on it, enriched with all the infos those services usually provide.

That’s the reason why I disabled them, until they’ll let me receive just a summary like that, less annoying than receiving an email for each new follower.

Get The Most Out Of Twitter Email Notifications: Topify and Twimailer

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