Comments on: How to use Twimailer securely

By: artgrrl

artgrrl — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:53:05 +0000

too bad Twimailer has been down for days now

By: Mark Frisk

Mark Frisk — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:58:55 +0000

Interesting news re Twimailer:

Buyer Beware: Topify Turns Down Offer to Acquire Twimailer
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twimailer_security.php

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:04:28 +0000

@David C: Nope. The idea is that you still receive the original Twitter notifications, but after you forward them to Twimailer, you filter or delete them as they come in. As you forward the notifications to Twimailer, it will respond with the enhanced version, since it doesn’t actually care where the Twitter notification originates from.

You do end up with two sets of notifications (one from Twitter and one from Twimailer, but that’s why you delete or archive those coming in from Twitter).

By: David C

David C — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:47:11 +0000

If you do it the way you say don’t you lose the benefits of signing up for Twimailer in the first place. Won’t it go back to regular notifications from Twitter which are basic and do not include the extra info provided by Twimailer?

By: Lillea Woodlyns

Lillea Woodlyns — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:18:26 +0000

I’m concerned about Twimailer overall. Their Twitter page doesn’t exist and when I click on ’support’ I get a line of absolute nonsense for the e-mail address.

I set up things as you advise. Normally I get a few followers a day, which isn’t always a good thing, but since setting up Twimailer I’ve had one person follow me (it’s only been 2-3 days, but it’s stil unusual to have so few) and I wasn’t informed about them.

Any thoughts? I’m starting to wonder if Twimailer is a bit of a scam.

By: Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:35:41 +0000

Awesome tip, Chris! It’s great to see that Twimailer can be used without sending all of my DMs through them, too.

By: ewebber

ewebber — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:58:27 +0000

I couldn’t seen to get this to work with twimailer, but it does work great with topify

By: Allan White

Allan White — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:04:48 +0000

I just found out about the service, looks good but changing my twitter email sure gave me pause – I’m glad I’m not the only one.

Their last tweet indicates that they’re back up, I’ll be watching.

Chris, thanks for posting this, very useful!

By: Mark Frisk

Mark Frisk — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:38:44 +0000

Thanks for this great workaround. Unfortunately, Twimailer seems to be down for the count, at least for me, as of March 8, early morning through now (mid-afternoon EST).

Not receiving any emails from Twimailer, but I’ve had about a dozen new followers since I started forwarding emails.

I’ve double-checked all settings; everything looks good.

Is it working for anyone right now?

I’m definitely not skipping the Inbox with emails from Twitter, at least for now.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:02:52 +0000

Thanks for the hack, just tweeted it.