New Twitter Support Launched!

It took longer than we were hoping, but Feed My Inbox deployed all-new Twitter support today. It's now a lot faster, more informative and damn good looking. Here is what the new Twitter emails look like:

Twitter Email

The new email supports retweets, shows profile information on the top and also hyperlinks @ replies. Not only that, but we are no longer using the RSS feed to check for updates. This is a custom integration where we get results instantly from Twitter, just like any other Twitter application you may use on your desktop or phone. So in most cases we can get real-time Twitter email notifications to your inbox in a minute or less from the time it was posted.

What it's Great For

Keeping up with people/companies without having a Twitter account (great for non-techies!)
Get twitter notifications anywhere you get email: at home, at work or on the go, with only one app!
"Following" accounts without them knowing you are following them

What's Next

Now that we've got this going, the next step is to apply the same integration to Twitter searches. For now, Twitter search subscriptions will still use the current Feed My Inbox templates and RSS feed integration method. Stay tuned to the blog for when we add this in.

8 Comments

Jun 6, 2010 9:44AM

1. Cadill

OK, so how do I actually use it?

Jun 7, 2010 12:31AM

2. Nick

Hey Cadill ... it works exactly the same. Just type a Twitter URL into Feed My Inbox to subscribe to a twitter feed. If you are subscribed to any twitter feeds already you have been moved over to these emails automatically. Thanks!

Jun 14, 2010 3:29PM

3. Jeffrey Paul

What about protected twitter feeds. I tried a friends account who protects their tweets and got this error message:
Oops! We couldn't find any feeds there. Care to try again?

Jun 15, 2010 12:23PM

4. Nick

@Jeffrey - Good question. We don't support the protected feeds yet, but that's on the list to do. I will shoot you an email when we launch it. Thanks!

Jul 26, 2010 12:30PM

5. Jeffrey Paul

@Nick - Any updates on this? One of the most interesting people I follow protects their accounts and I'd LOVE to be able to use FMI to get updates from them!

Sep 3, 2010 2:47PM

6. Andy

I used to get a single daily email with all my twitter updates using the url: http://myusername:password@twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss

With Twitter turning off basic authentication and forcing the use of OAuth, this no longer works.

Is there any intention of adding this sort of support to FMI in the near future, or should I be looking for a twitter client?

Oct 21, 2010 11:08AM

7. Alan

Why does my Twitter Feed keep disappearing from my subscriptions?

Oct 21, 2010 11:56AM

8. Nick

Hey Alan, since this is an individual support request, we'll respond to you via email and see if we can get the issue solved for you. Thanks!