FULL and MAX access users can now post tweets longer than 140 characters! We've introduced a new email address to make this possible: post@tweetymail.com

How does it work?

Send an email to post@tweetymail.com and it will post your tweet on Twitter. It works almost exactly like tweet@tweetymail.com, except that when your tweet is longer than 140 characters, tweetymail will 1) post the full text of your tweet on the tweetymail website, and 2) post a tweet on Twitter that includes a link to the full text of your tweet.  View and click on the example below to see how it works:

http://twitter.com/anilchawla/status/18398908503

What about tweet@tweetymail.com?

tweet@tweetymail.com continues to works the the same way it has always worked. If your tweet is longer than 140 characters, your tweet will fail and you will get an email from tweetymail letting you know. However, you now have two options for retrying your tweet: You can either edit the tweet and retry it, or you can just post the entire tweet as it is! Here is an example of the email you will receive when your tweet is longer than 140 characters:

Why the two separate email addresses?

tweetymail is all about convenience and flexibility! If you want tweetymail to always post your tweet -- no matter how long it is -- just use post@tweetymail.com. On the other hand, if you want to find out when your tweet is longer than 140 characters so that you can decide what to do, keep using tweet@tweetymail.com. We think that giving you these two email addresses is better than picking one behavior over the other or using a "setting" that forces you into one choice.

Give it a try!

Try it out and let us know how it works! You can find more details in our user guide, and as always, feel free to leave your comments and questions below.

A quick enhancement - tweetymail emails will now show you who a tweet is in reply to:

FULL and MAX users can additionally click on this link to see the actual status on the Twitter website. This enhancement includes all email alerts as well as emails sent in response to 'latest' requests. Enjoy!

tweetymail provides a number of easy ways to receive tweets in your email. One of the most popular features is the ability to request an email with the latest tweets from the users you follow on Twitter (i.e your timeline): just send an email to latest@tweetymail.com. The nice thing about this feature is that you can choose exactly how many tweets you want to receive by putting a number in the body of your email. But wouldn't it be nicer if you could sometimes ask tweetymail to just send you the tweets that are new? Now you can!

Send an email to latest@tweetymail.com with an empty email body (in other words -  don't specify the number of tweets you want) and tweetymail will respond with up to 200 tweets that are new since your previous request to latest@tweetymail.com! It's exactly like refreshing on the Twitter home page or refreshing your timeline in another Twitter app. As you've probably realized, this enhancement replaces the behavior of defaulting to twenty tweets when you leave the email body empty. This new enhancement is only for FULL and MAX access users. FREE access users will continue to receive a default of twenty tweets when leaving the email body empty (upgrade your account).

Apart from this enhancement, latest@tweetymail.com still works the way it always has. If you want to receive a specific number of tweets (even if you have already seen them), you can still specify the number of tweets you want in the email body. If you want to receive tweets from a specific user, instead of all of the users you follow, you can still put that user's Twitter username in the subject line. Also, this enhancement does not affect automatic email alerts in any way.

One last thing to understand: tweetymail will keep track of the tweets you have already seen based on the subject line of your emails to latest@tweetymail.com. Therefore, you can independently "refresh the timelines" of multiple users by sending emails to latest@tweetymail.com with the appropriate username in the subject line and leaving the email body empty.

We've updated the user guide with this enhancement but feel free to ask questions and post your comments below!