7 Reasons Why TwitterMail Rocks (and you should use it!)
December 25, 2007 – 3:33 pmTwitterMail is yet another Twitter related web application that lets you post Twitter updates via an email message. When you sign-up, you will receive a private email address so to send your Twitter updates to, acting as a bridge between your mailbox and your Twitter account.
In this post, I will list some of the few things that IMHO, make TwitterMail a really rockin’ web application.
1- Post Twitter updates via email - Lets say you are currently composing a mail and suddenly thinks that you should tell “what you are doing” on your Twitter page. You don’t have to leave your mail application to accomplish this. Just send an email to your private TwitterMail address!
2- Automatic TinyUrl conversion - TwitterMail conveniently converts long URL to a short one. Nice move!
3- Receive Twitter replies via email - now you don’t have to open the Twitter page to get your friend “@Replies”!
4- Timeline Updates - Send an email message with ‘Friend’ as the subject and you will get receive the last 20 updates from all of your Twitter friends via email.
5- Enable longer Twitter post - Twitter limits you to 140 character per post. TwitterMail overcome this by having a “Read more at” TinyUrl link for your post.
6- Schedule your Twitter post - Now you can post Twitter updates for the future! (This defies the “What you are doing” Twitter mantra, lol!)
7- Twitter server down, no problem! - TwitterMail will post your Twitter updates once the server becomes alive again. You can continue to publish your Tweets in the meantime!
With all the features above, there is nothing more that can stop you from Twittering day and night. I hope you will try TwitterMail and tell me your experience by leaving some comments below.
Happy Twittering and have a wonderful holiday!
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Tags: twitter, twittermail, microblogging, blogging, tips, tricks
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3 Responses to “7 Reasons Why TwitterMail Rocks (and you should use it!)”
Thanks for the post! I am one of the founders of TwitterMail and always love to read posts from users. Any suggestions for improvement? Missing features? WOuld love to hear that too…
By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Dec 25, 2007
By Syahid Ali on Dec 25, 2007
The 140 character thing is a bit of a myth- obviously that’s the SMS limit but the web interface can actually handle up to 250-odd characters… I wonder if maybe posts should only be split after this length?
By Rav on Jul 23, 2008