Comments on: 7 Reasons Why TwitterMail Rocks (and you should use it!)

By: sietebeta

sietebeta — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:52:38 +0000

@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: Nazar

Nazar — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:06:45 +0000

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: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:24:00 +0000

@Pierre: Never tried that one before. If i know how to do it, rest assured that I will post it in here.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:00:29 +0000

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: Rav

Rav — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:34:03 +0000

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: Syahid Ali

Syahid Ali — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:36:06 +0000

@Boris: I will email you if I can think of one later!

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:44:58 +0000

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…