All through the uprising in Egypt, the dictatorship that runs the country tried to take a little steam out of the rebellion by switching off the country's Internet. They felt that to take Twitter and Facebook away from the rebels would make it more difficult for them to organize. They even shut down their cell phone service all over the country. There is one thing that they didn't shut down though: the country's landline service. And that's where Twitter found an important crack in the armor. Within a couple of days of having their access to Egypt shut down, the company made it possible for Egyptians to post on Twitter what they saw and heard if they went through by calling up a landline number. Innovations on Twitter have to be that groundbreaking to get anywhere these days. There are so many third-party twitter clients around that no one takes notice of one unless it truly comes up with something innovative. And of course, there's always the possibility that Twitter will be so inspired by what a client makes possible, then it will design the feature into the main application and completely obviate the need for third-party client altogether. This new one here below probably won't disappear that way any time soon. It is a new way to access Twitter that's been online for a few months now: it's called TweetyMail (tweet and email, get it?). What is it, you ask? It's a way that you can access Twitter with nothing more than an e-mail account. It actually does what it promises, and it seems to actually work.
The genius of the system that TweetyMail uses is that it seems to try to make it completely unnecessary to use what at one time seemed like an indispensable innovation - the Twitter client. If all you want for instance is to take a look at all the latest tweets that the people you follow have put out, you just send out an e-mail, an get one in return that contains all your tweets. If you want to the the one sending out the tweets yourself, you just write an e-mail for it. Anything you want to on Twitter - re-tweet, follow someone, anything that Twitter allows you to do, you can do it now with nothing more than your e-mail account.
Basically, it works through assigning a different TweetyMail email account to every kind of Twitter action that you would want to perform. If you want to send a message to a user, you send it to "message@tweetymail.com"; there's a different e-mail account at TweetyMail for every action that you want to perform. To make use of the system, all you need is an e-mail account that you need to link to TweetyMail. Once the verification process this done, you're pretty much set.
One unintended benefit to using TweetyMail to connect to your Twitter account is that you somehow get far better levels of DM notification. To set up TweetyMail to do this, you need to make use of the custom address that TweetyMail gives you that you use as your primary e-mail address on Twitter. That's how TweetyMail finds out where you need your notifications sent. And in the new follower notification e-mail from TweetyMail, you get a full bio, all your latest tweets and even a one-click follow. It's just far better than anything Twitter offers you on the main website.
So that's what you get - a way to not have to use either Titter or any client. If you are someone who loves your e-mail account more than anything else, this may be for you.
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