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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7 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
@Boris: I will email you if I can think of one later!
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
Hi, is there a way to use Gmail filters to write a rule that takes an email I receive from one address and automatically forwards it to my Twittermail address? I’ve tried this but the forwarded emails aren’t showing up in my twitter account. It doesn’t seem like a problem with my gmail filter, cause I’ve tried it with another destination email address and it worked fine. It doesn’t seem like a problem with my Twittermail, cause when I manually forward an email to Twittermail, it posts just fine to Twitter. I asked the Twittermail folks for help but so far no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
By Pierre on Jan 31, 2009
@Pierre: Never tried that one before. If i know how to do it, rest assured that I will post it in here.
By Syahid A. on Jan 31, 2009
Bro, i’m having this friend timeline problem. i’d try everything but twittermail is not replying my request for friend timeline. did your’s is eorking?
By Nazar on Apr 29, 2009
@Syahid A. : well i just did, and its just awesome. You can do this with one twitter/twittermail account but i used a pair of each:
Account A: is a normal twitter account, and follows account B. It also has sms forwarding enabled for tweets from Account B.
Account B: doesn’t follow anyone and only allows account A as follower. Tweets are blocked to anyone else.
Now open a twittermail account for A and B, make them as obfuscated as you want (you’ll never have to use them directly thanks to gmail), and set them up as forwarding addresses in gmail (check twitter for confirmation codes).
The last step is having TWO filters:
filter A (for tweeting via gmail): as a condition i put “any mail having ‘tweet’ in the subject”. You can make the conditions anything you want of course. Actions: Archive, mark as unread, forward to Account A twittermail, and apply some label.
filter B (for receiving mail to my cell): as condition “any mail having ‘sms’ in the subject”. Actions are the same except it forwards to Account B.
This gives you:
*) a new way to receive mail directly over sms
*) a way to tweet via gmail
*) an archive of all this and,
*) possibility to integrate everything with mail forwarding, lists or whatever
I think these can be counted as more reason why twittermail (and twitter, and gmail) rocks.
By sietebeta on Apr 28, 2011