tweetymail takes a different approach in trying to reduce your need to visit the Twitter homepage or yet another Air client. You simply associate an email account with them (and their oAuth login) and off you go.
You can send emails in to create the tweet, follow someone or even send links. They have a good example of sending the link as email right from your mobile or any desktop browser. Instead of you sending email to some coded address only you know, they reverse it and look for your configured from address.
This is good and bad. The good is that you don’t need to create address book entries or try to remember it. You can then tweet from anywhere you send as your email. The bad is you have to use your email to send it always, instead of to the code and it is slightly possible that someone could send as you if they knew you used the service.
While they are trying to use SPF, DomainKeys and other measures to verify the sending server, it is not 100%, but is ok.
Tweetymail will automatically shorten URL’s (I didn’t see where to configure which shortening service to use) and they will ignore your email signature.
Filed under: Mobile Clients , email
Anil,
Great program. Wish you had included an e-mail contact on the TM site … I’m new to twitter and not sure if you’re getting my questions. I am trying to use a work e-mail address to link to TM; but received a sender verification error. I really don’t want to risk turning off the sender verification setting in TM and risk spoofing. Also, how often is TM checking feed updates? And, it would be great if the threshold could be set lower than 10 without having to set a filter.
Thanks so much for the coverage! I am planning to add new features soon and would love to get feedback from anyone who has tried the service.
By the way, you can configure the URL shortener by clicking on the “Account settings” link after you sign-in. tweetymail currently supports TinyURL and bit.ly, but others can be added upon request.
Finally, I do believe that tweetymail is very safe to use even if somebody knows your email address. Most major email providers (gmail/yahoo/hotmail/etc) support SPF or DKIM and I am not aware of any way that someone can “send as you” using one of these providers.