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For all the Twitter-ers
If you love to share the details of your life through Twitter, you’ll love this handy tool. TwitterMail creates an e-mail address for your twitter account, which will automatically post an entry on twitter when you send an e-mail to it.
You’ll want to keep your TwitterMail address a secret though, as it enables anyone that knows it to post to your Twitter account. Other than this potential pitfall, TwitterMail is a handy tool for Twitter-ers.
July 7th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Hmm… that pitfall is an easy fix.
When they register a user to a TwitterMail address, just ensure that the account only posts messages from a specified (or list of) e-mail address.
This would mean that in order to get around the system, a person would have to know both the TwitterMail address and the associated real e-mail address, and then spoof it.
July 7th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
That’s kind of nifty if you tweet from somewhere other than your own computer, but I’m always on my laptop and just use Twitterific (Mac only).