I’m addicted to my Blackberry. I’m addicted to Twitter. I’m on TwitterBerry all the time. Unfortunately, one of the things I find myself doing repeatedly (other than reading my Friend’s Timeline, which is never NOT new) is loading my @goaliegirl replies. It would be really nice to be able to get an email (or SMS) notification rather than repeatedly loading it in Twitterberry.
I have never been able to get SMS to work right, and even then it’s only for people you select to follow with SMS, and I don’t really need that either.
I tried a few RSS-to-email services before I found the right one that worked well. Thanks to Dave Fleet (@davefleet) for pointing me to Notify.me.
Here’s what I did:
1. Go to Advanced Twitter Search.
2. In the People section, the “To this person” field, enter the Twitter name. (Optionally you can also put the name in the “Referencing this person” field, or whatever search method you choose!)
3. Search.
4. Click on the “Feed for this query” link and copy the URL.
5. Sign up at Notify.me Enter a username, password and email address.
6. Click “Skip Account Setup”. Then click on “Sources” and add the URL from Step 4.
7. Click on “Your Account”, then Destinations. Use the “validate” link to validate your email address (or set up SMS if you like). They’ll send you a code.
8. Once validated, make sure email is turned ON in the Account/Destinations page. (Even after I set up my email, it wasn’t on by default.)
6. Voila!
You may have to wait a bit for it to “catch up”. It took a few hours for me, but once it did, it’s working great. I’m now getting all @goaliegirl Tweets in my Inbox.
Update: Emails don’t show who sent the @ and SMS updates are cut off, but it’s still WAY faster than TweetBeep.
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Great idea, I’d take it one step farther with using search.twitter.com and doing the search for @username and using that feed.
The default twitter @ tab only catches when the @ reply is first, the search will catch it anywhere.
That’s exactly what I did…See Step 1.
Also, you can’t use the /replies link because you need to be logged in to do that.
There’s a slightly simpler way to do it using Tweetbeep.com. It allows the same functionality as above, but in a single service.
There’s a bit of lag, but it’s essentially Google Alerts for Twitter.
Ok, forget what I said, the TwitterSearch/Notify.me way is MUCH better. Goodbye, Tweetbeep…
Thanks a lot for the tip! Here’s another neat replacement for IM… I used to use Google Talk on my BlackBerry for Twitter updates, but have been lacking as such.
* Sign up for the IM/Google Talk service on notify.me.
* Add a new RSS feed:
http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss
* In the URL, add your username and password to the URL: example is
http://ev98:RIDICULOUSPASSWORD@twitter.com/status/friends_timeline.rss
* Watch the updates fly in to your desktop IM client and BlackBerry!
I may have to Pipes the feed before passing it to notify.me (to reduce the number of updates I get) but so far it’s working quite well.
My twitter app does this, but is much simpler. Just follow @FeedTwit from your twitter account to get started. Soon you will be getting your replies as SMS.
Only I want them in email, not SMS.