Twitter down? Use TwitterMail!
Twitter.com is down again but people are starting to figure out that TwitterMail saves your messages and submits them to Twitter.com as soon as it is up again. This is a feature of TwitterMail that we didn’t advertise a lot but it turns out to be pretty cool and useful in situations like this. Only downside for us is that it isn’t possible to create a new account at TwitterMail when Twitter.com is down because we can’t check your account details then. We should think of a way to work around that because it looks like...
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Saurier Duval is the owner and founder of The Museum of Modern Betas. he has been collecting webservices that are in Beta for years now. He has covered Fleck.com and all other services we launched in beta over the years. Today I received a message from him that he added TwitterMail to The Museum of Modern Betas. He also wrote the following: “You are a neverending spring of brilliant ideas” A great compliment coming from a man who spends his days looking at all the brilliant new services that are being launched! Check out the page...
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Patrick and I spent a few months in 2006 visiting every Mobile Operator in the Netherlands to see if we could convince them to start selling us Location Based Services. We told them that we wanted to be their first customers and that we would love to resell their services for them. The reasoning was that they wouldn’t be able to sell it themselves because clients wouldn’t be interested unless every operator would offer those services. So we wanted to be the party in the middle who would buy Location Based Services from every...
read moreTwitterMail: Live!
After a bumpy ride we can finally declare TwitterMail live. Moving the domain from one server to the other 48 hours before launch wasn’t too smart. Oh well… But it all seems to work fine now! Give it a try if you want and please give me feedback here. So far more than 100 people are using it and we hope this will grow rapidly from now on. And why shouldn’t it? A few tips: - Receive notifications of replies: If someone adds your username to their post we will send you that message via email. - Longer URLs are changed into...
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