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by Brian Solis

After yesterday’s rise and fall of TWPLY, a new Twitter app that delivers @ replies to your inbox, but also sends a spam message to your Twitter followers when you sign up, we learn that the much-discussed app already sold on Sitepoint for just over $1,000.

Thank you to Jé Maverick who introduced us to a new, alternative service in the comments section of our TWPLY post.

Replies by Twitapps is a more elegant solution for receiving @replies on Twitter in your inbox – without requiring your Twitter password. It delivers your updates on an hourly basis or when your replies reach a threshold of 25 tweets (whichever is first).

1. Follow @ta_replies.

2. The Twitapps bot will follow you back and send you a direct message.

3. Reply to that DM with the email address where you want the tweets delivered.

4. Add twitapps@googlemail.com to your address book or safe senders list to ensure you get the emails.

Once you’re registered, you can control our bot using direct messages to @ta_replies. Send stop to stop getting emails and start to get them going again.

For more tools, apps, and services for Twitter, please read, “Twitter Tools for Communications and Community Professionals.”

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by Brian Solis

I stumbled across an interesting Twitter community today that was so different that I just had to share it with you. DMFail is a catchall service that discovers and broadcasts the failed attempts at sending someone a direct message on Twitter.

Typically to send a DM, you simply type “d username yourmessagehere.” However, there are obviously scores of people who us “DM” instead of “d” thus inadvertently sharing their private message with everyone on Twitter. DMFail identifies the tweets that start with DM and rebroadcasts them in a dedicated stream for all to enjoy.

While some of these are down right embarrassing, DMFail grants us the guilty pleasure of LOL’ing at some of the mistakes of others. Give it some time though, as more people discover the service, the volume for faux tweets has skyrocketed. Chances are, for the time being, what you’re reading is fake.

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