Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Twitter will tell you about new and favorite retweets by email


Twitter started today to activate a feature for those who love to receive notifications by e-mail. The social network now allows a message is sent to each new direct message or a new follower, but these options were extended today. Network users can now be notified by email when one of your Tweets and retweet, favorited or when your username is mentioned in the social network.


Like all the new features, this is slowly being turned to its millions of users. One, the user Kevin Nunez, who already has access to new options for notifications, sent the screenshots below for The Next Web, showing how they will work.

* It seems like the emails of new followers and MDs, they will be individual. That is, each new bookmark or retweet a new message would be sent. The new options should appear shortly on the tab for all configurations of network notifications.


Because these e-mails sent in bulk, hardly Twitter will enable this feature by default for all users, both old and new. Unless they want to disrupt users and have enough left to make servers that task. But it's an interesting addendum, though. The question is whether users will like it and turn this option.

Until now you could only be notified of bookmarks and retweets real time through applications that use the API real-time streaming, and TweetDeck like TweetDeck.

Update at 20:48 | Twitter has enabled this feature by default for all users. Tsk, tsk, tsk. How ugly.