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A twitter to email service, and when you unsubscribe to a twitter account giving notifications, it unsubscribes you from the underlying emails. It can be a new
by adrianwaj 17y ago
A twitter to email service, and when you unsubscribe to a twitter account giving notifications, it unsubscribes you from the underlying emails.
It can be a new service not built on Twitter, say on identi.ca or friendfeed.
There'd be an API, so parties sending out emails can build into the service with a pre-established userbase.
Do you want to build it?
(afterward ... with relationships established with businesses.. can follow through into my idea http://bit.ly/1MscB3 http://bit.ly/1MscB3)
- warwick 17y agoI think you're looking at this backwards. Instead of an API, to start you allow users to send or forward their notification emails to some unique email address that's their feed. RSS notifications are handled similarly by the user subscribing to their feeds within the app. Tie into the existing notification mechanisms instead of asking the world to change just for you. Given the amount of reaction this comment thread got, I'm considering hacking out a prototype and seeing if it helps alleviate the problem. That being said, I've already got far too much on my plate. I don't think you'd ever come up with this idea if you were the kind of person who had time to kill checking their notifications.
- adrianwaj 17y agoA couple of things, for your interest: rssfriends.com provides feeds for twitter email notifications, that you can then turn off. I'm possibly willing to spend $4000 on this, or something like it, which I'll build the front-end - depending on my work schedule. The other side of the coin is information you'd like from firms, but are not getting, rather than vice versa - hence the friendfeed for business information. (edit: the other aspect is having the end user be able to respond to some type of company information, in a type of Google Wave, so another response can be made)