Twimailer - Get more Detailed E-mails About Your Twitter Followers

March 04, 2009

I have around 2,000 followers on Twitter. The problem is that when I want to follow someone back, I have to click through to them and load them up in the browser. What if there was a better way to do that? What if every E-mail that showed up in your E-mail account had all the data you usually find on the Twitter webpage? Wouldn't you be able to make decisions much easier about who to follow back?

Enter Twimailer. To use it you just go to the Twimailer website, enter your E-mail address, and change your default Twitter address to the one that get sent to your E-mail account. Then you begin receiving awesome, detailed E-mails that even expand those bio web addresses that Twitter usually truncates. Finally, full details of new followers. No more shallow Twitter E-mails.

Results

So I began using it just this morning. The results have been wonderfully satisfactory. Every follower I've received has been easier to follow back, leaving less flagged Twitter messages and an easier way to check spammers.

Security

But there is one small problem. Twimailer asks you to set your Twittermail to their address. And while Twimailer looks trustworthy, there is still security risk. Worried about this too? Check out How to use Twimailer securely (from factoryjoe.com). He shows you how to use Twimailer safely by employing a Gmail filter.

Try it Out

Twimailer Official Site. You can also follow me at @caseorganic. 

Not Into Twimailer? Try Topify

Topify allows you to see detailed Twitter information and follow back Twitterers easily by just hitting the reply button from your E-mail account. To top it off, it doesn't required the same info that Twimailer does. Thanks to @MikeRohrig for the tip.

Comments

[Mike]

I so often forget how these things can be abused. Thanks.

[Ouriel Ohayon]

if you want an invite to try topify just shoot me an email at ouriel dot ohayon at gmail dot com

[Andy]

Twimailer only asks for the email but Topify asks for both email and Twitter account.

On top of that, Topify is not even launched yet!

I'll stick with http://twimailer.com

[Andy]

Twimailer only asks for the email but Topify asks for both email and Twitter account.

On top of that, Topify is not even launched yet!

I'll stick with http://twimailer.com