Mashable - The Social Media Guide - Latest Comments in Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

aBlogz — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:05:49 -0000

Useful blog

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

sameeah — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:17:07 -0000

ya check ur girl out
gtg 4real

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Rahna Barthelmess — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:59:02 -0000

I would also like to see the short "bio" of the person to help me discern whether to follow back or not. Unless I have met the person in real life, I sitll need to click through to see who the person is....

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Mauricio E.T. — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:42:12 -0000

Agreed! This is awesome. Especially on HTML enabled BlacKBerrys.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Jim Gray — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:50:41 -0000

i'll check that out,thanks.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Jim Gray — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:50:09 -0000

that's a good point.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Jennifer Van Grove — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:28:48 -0000

We have nothing against the little guys and we know it's not a game changer. The tone of post was meant to be sardonic...as in we're finally glad to see Twitter making improvements to email notifications.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

jhoysi — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:29:27 -0000

Excellent! I can now turn those notifications back on, as they will give me information instead of just alert me to a new follower.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

FadiPick — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:59:12 -0000

HTML gives more options to make your text more readable. Maybe now we can embed hyperlinks. That would be cool.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

FadiPick — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:49:13 -0000

at least it is walking forward :P

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Miri — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:40:22 -0000

Like it, nice improvement... :)

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

maruxz — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:56:13 -0000

There is another service called "Twimailer" which also sends the Image and followers + last 10 updates, so you can actually see what are the followers interests before going to his profile and following back. Sometimes it crashes, but which service doesn't? ;)

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

jstrellner — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:08:22 -0000

They are also tracking click-through's on these emails. That + bit.ly, means they are checking conversion... I think ads are imminent.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

MJ — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:20:22 -0000

got that this morning, good move. it seems twitter is improving quickly.

virtually acquire twitter on http://www.webmilker.com/tw...

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Toni — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:58:46 -0000

http://Twimailer.com offers even more details about the new follower

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Christopher — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:53:13 -0000

Its better, but still has a long way to go to beat twittfilter.com

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Ashley Bolivar — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:22:17 -0000

Personally I think this is a great addition to Twitter. Hey now I can tell if the person is actually worth my time... wait that sounds a bit superficial... maybe more like someone I may better connect with.

Live Limitless,
http://AshleyBolivar.com

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Jason — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:12:09 -0000

nice article! how weird, everybody is excited about the new feature and here i am turning my follower notification off because it became distracting... next i wish they would use their capital to make their search engine better. now THAT would be a game changer.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Vinay — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:23:55 -0000

Sweet.. just tweeted this and already at Mashable - http://twitter.com/iVinay/s... :)

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

mg©o — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:01:20 -0000

is it true that only the last 3,200 tweets are saved on twitter's database?
talk about timeline :,-(

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

digideth — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:57:24 -0000

NOT A GAME CHANGER!!!

You all need to check out http://Topify.com they have had a better solution in place for months now. Just ask @topify for a invite an they will point you in the right direction.

Once again you have failed to bring all the information to the table...

I am getting the feeling that Mashable does not like the little guy. You failed to mention http://topify.com just like you failed to mention http://DestroyTwitter.com

Both services do not have the million dollar funding behind them and they both do a better job then the ones with the bankroll. Funding does not = a better service.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

netik — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:54:14 -0000

The mail is in mime-multipart. If clients want to process the html, they can. If they want to use the text version (attached to the same mail) they can.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

John F Moore — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:49:16 -0000

Great additions, especially if they successfully fall back to text-based for e-mail clients that are still text-only (like my mobile phone).

I currently use Topify for processing follows and DMs because of the fact that Twitter has been so poor in terms of the information provided. Now, if they can add the wishlist items I have for Topify:

http://johnfmoore.wordpress...

then you'll soon see me move away from Topify and back to just core Twitter functionality.

John Moore
http://twitter.com/JohnFMoore

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Scott Prock — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:14:53 -0000

That is indeed a welcome addition to the alert emails, I'm still wishing they would display several tweets from the new follower and their bio. Knowing what they tweet about and they're interests are better at determining if they're of interest to follow.

I know there are third party services that have this functionality, but after trying them I didn't like the constant down times.

One thing I do see that is a plus over the previous text only version is being able to see the avatars. Before you think I'm shallow, let me explain ...

I used to follow everyone who followed me, until I saw several porn related people start to follow me (not what I want on my personal brand) so I pay close attention to the pics and if they have any hint of risk, I will look at their Twitter page first.

Great step forward, but not enough to get me to turn notifications back on.

Re: Twitter Follower Notifications: Now With More Cowbell

Nancy — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:13:58 -0000

Gotta have more cowbell!