Smart retweets from your email
One of the best features in tweetymail is the ability to retweet directly from your email. Simply click the "retweet" link next to a tweet and tweetymail will auto-populate an email that you can immediately send (or edit first if you choose to):
This existing retweet feature is extremely fast and easy to use, but it also relies on "old style" retweeting in which you basically re-state the tweet with "RT @someuser:" in front of it. This format makes the most sense when you need to alter the text (e.g. to make it fit) or want to add your own comment. But what about those times when you simply want to retweet without adding a comment or worrying about going over 140 characters because of the extra text? We're really excited to announce that tweetymail now supports "new style" Twitter retweets (learn about these here)! We still want to give you the flexibility to add your comments, though, so we came up with a neat way for tweetymail to automatically "do the right thing". Here's how it works:
- When you click the "retweet" link next to a tweet, tweetymail will auto-populate a retweet email just like always
- If you send the email without changing anything, tweetymail will generate a "new style" retweet
- If you change *anything* in the retweet text, such as adding your own comment, tweetymail will post using the "old style" retweet format
*Note: Adding extra whitespace to the beginning or end of the retweet text does not constitute a change
*Update (10/31/10): Some mail clients automatically add line-breaks. Hence, we now ignore certain extra whitespace within the retweet text and do not treat it as a change.
It's super simple and works automatically. You get to take advantage of new style retweets when they make sense without losing the flexibility of the old style format.We hope you love this new feature as much as we do! Feel free to leave your comments below. Oh... and please RT! ;-)
