Based on feedback from our fantastic users, we just added two new settings that control how information is displayed in the subject line of our emails. We've been experimenting with these settings over the past day (as you might have noticed!) and now want to tell you more about them.

New setting #1: Display the number of tweets in the subject line

This setting provides a simple but very useful way to know how much information is in an email without having to open it. This setting is now enabled by default.

New setting #2: Display the timestamp of the email in the subject line

Although most email clients already display the timestamp of the email, some users asked to see this information in the subject line. Perhaps more importantly, users have asked us if we can prevent email clients such as Gmail from grouping messages together. Enabling this setting is the way to do it! The setting is not enabled by default, and if you decide to use it, please be sure that you have configured your timezone correctly in your Twitter settings.

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So how do you turn these settings on or off?

1. Sign in to your tweetymail account
2. Click on General Settings on the Email Addresses tab
3. Check or uncheck the boxes and click Save Settings
   

Tell us what you think! Do you find these settings useful? Did we get the defaults right?

The tweetymail Mentions Alert is a great way to keep up with conversations on Twitter. Create this alert and tweetymail will automatically send you an email when a new tweet mentions your username. FULL/MAX access users can even reply to mentions directly from their inbox.

The Mentions Alert was originally designed to send you an email for every new mention so that you could receive the mention as soon as possible. However, we underestimated how popular some of you are! That's why we recently added a "Mentions Threshold" option to the alert. You can now a specify a threshold number and tweetymail will wait for that number of mentions to accumulate before sending you an email. All of your new mentions will be listed in that single email.

To increase your Mentions Threshold, simply sign in to your tweetymail account, navigate to the Alerts tab, and click on "settings" for your Mentions Alert. Enjoy!

As you hopefully know, we recently added the ability to generate "new style" retweets directly from your email. Today we are updating all of our emails to fully support "new style" retweets. Here is what that means:

• We now display the original tweet along with the name of the person who retweeted it (see screenshot below)
• Replying to a retweet will create a reply email to the author of the original tweet
• Replying "all" to a retweet will create a reply email to the original author, the person who retweeted it, and anyone else mentioned in the tweet
• Retweeting will retweet the original tweet as long as you do not add a comment or modify the tweet (see our smart retweets post)
• Mentions alerts now include retweets
  

Here is an example "latest" email containing tweets from @Scobleizer:

Leave us a comment below if you have any questions!

If you've set up your Twitter account to receive tweetymail's enhanced Twitter notifications, then you already know how easy it is to respond to direct messages directly from your email. Today we added a few tweaks to make those Direct Message Notifications even more useful:

• Profile picture: You can now see the profile picture of the user who sent you the message
• Message history: You can now see the previous direct message that you sent to that same user

Here's what it looks like:

Although Twitter does not technically keep track of "replies" when it comes to direct messages, we hope that the message history feature will make it easier to keep up with direct message conversations. Let us know what you think!