Steve Garfield Invents Twittermail

March 31, 2007 · Comments

Steve Garfield Invents Twittermail

Twitter is down. Poor Twitter is going through growing pains like there’s no tomorrow. So, in a quick email I dropped to Steve Garfield, he replied, “Twitter’s down, so you’re using email?” And the idea was born.

Just for giggles, I emailed about seven or eight Twitter users with a Twitter-like update.

Where there’s a geek, there’s a way.

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  • Chck out Twittermail: http://twittermail.com

    ;-)
  • trust me- short is good, esp after spendng a day texting from the older than dirt cell phon ein a car on the GA highways....
  • jeffpulver
    Short single subject emails work wonders.
  • LEMills
    Nice idea, isn't it? We've been sending tweet-like messages in the day-job office this way for ages. Who has time to open mail?
    -L.
  • For me it raises a question and thought flow, just as CSS helped us separate content and form in terms of web pages, maybe we need to think about ways of separating the content and form of messages. I should be able to choose how various messages types are routed to me and to what device, with some smart agent helping the process, but that would require that we are able to tag our outbound messages with a "type" like (email | document | IM | Tweet | whatever) something that captures the type and nature of the communication morsel.
  • So: I'm a follower. Here goes some Temails.
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