Forget Twply, the day old and already despised service that forwards Twitter messages directly to your email inbox. There’s a new service which will do the same thing that doesn’t require you to give up your Twitter credentials – TwitApps Replies. You simply follow the TwitApps Replies Twitter account, and then reply to the direct message it sends you with the email you’d like the messages forwarded to. If you want to stop the service, just send a direct message to the service saying “stop.”
Emails are sent hourly or when you’ve had 25 replies, whichever occurs first. There isn’t much to complain about, and this is a much better way to get the same service. Great little service.
I just tried this service and TwitApps looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. Tweeted this one
Mike , It’s a wonder how you and a couple of other “heavy” tech bloggers got so angry at what looks to me like a guy who wanted to make some cash. It’s not fair of him either to use your names to get visibility , but this has gone a little over the professional and more into the personal area don’t you think?
p.s. shame on you , artistic-curve! If you ask me such practices are degrading for a wannabe professional
I’m using http://notify.me/ for replies and it works just great.
http://www.amit...st-news-alerts/ True i have tried its service and its really neat which sens you updates on multiple locations.
It is still handing over email details to a site that although it has a rudementary privacy statement, no details of site ownership in sight.
Then again Techcrunch still doesn’t have a privacy policy that I have been able to find, along with the standard required statement from Google ablut web beacons etc.
I think if you are going to support a service as being “legit”, it should be totally legit and transparent.
Quite right Andy. I had an ownership statement on the main twitapps.com site but not on the Replies site. It’s there now.
I have absolutely nothing to hide – I just wanted to point out how daft it is that a service like twply thought it needed your password.
Huh. They should call it an “email digest.”
good post.
Hi Michael,
I really enjoy your blog for your insights and the posts of your team of writers but there is one thing: you really speak a lot about twitter.
Now I understand Twitter has become an important medium of communication but does it really deserve so much attention ?
I know much more that I would like to know about twitter and other services build upon it, only because I follow your blog and others.
You can tell me, I am free not to read all the posts about twitter … ok fine. But Techcrunch used to be more that just following the service of a company over and over.
I don’t have a twitter account, maybe I will some day and enjoy the service and maybe become maniac about all the services around it.
But until then, I am looking forward to reading some more original Techcrunch approach of the web of today and tomorrow.
Thanks for your work.
Cheers!
I guess people really love to give out their Twitter passwords for random offerings.
The funny thing is, Twitter still requires username/password for API access, where one of their employees (@blaine – Blaine Cook) is among the OAuth specification authors. Twitter is “still-working on” OAuth implementation.
Anyway, to achieve a similar functionality, all you need is an RSS/Atom-to-Email solution. Twitter’s search is already providing a near-real-time reply and mention stream.
For example, all mentions about me (@bddemir) is easily reachable as an RSS feed at
http://search.t...ch?q=%40bddemir
Search yourself as “@username” at http://search.twitter.com. Copy & paste the URL to http://www.rssfwd.com. Sign-up, set your e-mail, frequency, etc and there you go.
I’ll look at http://notify.me too.
What is the best way to forward @replies to my email? http://twtpoll.com/rb1yvs
but i am rather interested in viewing @replies in the twitter itself rather than getting to my email,i feel like conversatioin is being done directly when i use the twitter ,i constantly refresh the editor for any updates ,i am very curious to found any replies posted to me. but same is not the case with the people who are busy in their work(it doesnt mean that i am not busy LOL) they may not constantly monitor the twitter, for those kind of people it would be helpful.
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From Chris Mesina:
“If you want @replies via email, sign up for FeedBurner, add a Twitter Search feed for your @username and subscribe via email!”
http://twitter....atus/1091218611
So, Im not to sure why everyone is turning this article against Michael and the rest of Techcrunch. Yes they write a lot about Twitter, but guess what Twitter is one of the most popular new technologies out, and as a technology blog, TechCrunch is doing what they are supposed to do, Blog about whats “hot.” Everyone needs to stop getting their panties in a bunch and stop complaining. I’m sick and tired of reading worthless comments that do not pertain to the post at all (I realize this is off topic, but it had to be said).
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At some point Real Soon unauthenticated unknown and untrusted sites will be dwarfed by sites that can prove that they are trusted. Privacy is almost as precious to people as their money.
It will only take one Really Bad Story about lost privacy to turn the tide on services like Twitter. There is no reason to trust them or anybody else with your information just because they published a Privacy Policy.
Honestly, who cares about a Privacy Policy unless it can be enforced? To enforce one takes time and money and so why not just go somewhere else?
- Curtis
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Tweets via email, oh God save me from that. I want to eliminate email…my resolution for 09
If any of these services want to try implementing this with no latency, I suggest checking out Gnip. You can filter on the “Reply To” field and since we get the full stream in real-time, we can fire of notification to the service provider (Twply or Twitapps or whomever) and then they send the actual content to the appropriate user. Zero latency is a wonderful thing.
None of these strategies are going to “monetize”, ads or no ads. Web 2.0 is going to end up generating even less revenue than Web 1.0 because:
1) Advertising of all kinds will enjoy a rapidly accelerating death this year-disposable incomes shooting towards zero means there is no point.
2) Social networking sites themselves are going to barely scrape by on ad revenue-so somehow a meta program that spews that out is going to throw up an ad as well, or else get subscription fees from a “subscribing” service that will throw up yet another ad to show you the data from the original site? What about the Web 3.0 sites that are meta-collections of the collectors, and then the uber-mind that collects all of these….
3) Subscription fees for any of these will never materialize-all subscribers will be small fry who cannot afford it.
At least Pets.com and other failed Web 1.0 sites had a plan to sell something. Google targeted ads succeeded but that model is rapidly turning out to be less profitable than hoped. Social networking is far less viable than even that.
I think up to about 50 followers this apps are great. After that it gets redundant since your filtering through hundreds of updates each day. Depending of course how religious your followees are.
It’s a nice service, but how will it monetize if they aren’t going to have the ads that you had such a problem with?
If they don’t monetize, how long do you expect this free service to last?
I’m glad you like it.
TwitApps is a side project for 3ft9 and will be supported as such for as long as is practical. If usage expands beyond reasonable running costs we’d start by asking for donations long before we’d consider carrying any sort of advertising.
@orli I’ve been using notifyme too http://notify.me/and socialtoo for followers/unfollowers http://socialtoo.com/ (tip care of David Spark http://www.spar...asolutions.com/).
Both work really well in conjunction.
Emails are sent hourly or when you’ve had 25 replies, whichever occurs first.
For this reason – we will definitely use this service, and this is without even clicking through yet. Guess that says something about the value and viral adoption of a simple solution. Good luck http://replies.twitapps.com/
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Forward twitter messages to as many emails as you want. ALL OPEN SOURCE BAAAABAAAYYYY!
I’d rather see a client where I can read all updates and messages from e-mail, Twitter, IM and social networks in one place with their own unique formats maintained. It’s all incoming for my attention so why not collect and process it in one place?
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