One of Twitter’s more annoying shortcomings is the lack of information within e-mail notifications about new people following you. All you get is someone’s name, and a link to their Twitter account.
Fortunately, Twimailer has developed a much better mousetrap with an e-mail notification service that provides detailed information about new followers, including their last five Twitter posts, the number of people who they follow, the number of people who follow them, and their profile.
In a nutshell, it’s e-mail notifications on steroids.
To use Twimailer, you provide it with your Twitter username and password. Then, Twimailer gives you a new e-mail address that you use to update the settings within your Twitter account. This lets Twimailer handle new followers, which it processes, and then delivers an e-mail to you.
All in all, it’s a terrific service that, once again, makes you realize how little Twitter has innovated beyond the basic service.
What it does? Well, instead of receiving the standard twitter follower emails, Twimailer sends you emails with complete details of all your new followers. These details include basically everything you see on their twitter profiles. How it works? Sign up with your email, Twimailer hands over a unique email address just for you which you then insert into your Twitter settings field.
5 Comments
When did this new feature start? I did not notice it this morning.
Thanks,
Nate
http://www.twitter.com/NateDesmond
This is a good feature. Topify also provides similar service. Check http://topify.com/. But it is in Beta state
Hi Mark, quick note, you don't need to give Twimailer your Twitter password — I use it purely because of that reason!
Cheers,
John.
Hi There. if you want to try topify just shoot me an email on ouriel dot ohayon at gmail dot com. i am sure you ll see the difference right away
Mark
Thanks for bringing this to our attention, what a great service! It also makes following back easy peasy.