Comments on: TWPLY Sends Twitter Replies to Email

By: Despised TWPLY Already Sold; Introducing a Better Alternative -- bub.blicio.us

Despised TWPLY Already Sold; Introducing a Better Alternative -- bub.blicio.us — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:00:34 +0000

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

By: Steven Finch

Steven Finch — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:52:21 +0000

This is a nice service. Currently already up for sale!

By: Jé Maverick

Jé Maverick — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:20:11 +0000

Here’s an app that provides the same service without “spam” or the need to provide login information. http://replies.twitapps.com/

Problem solved.

By: Twitterize Your Inbox | Twitterrati

Twitterize Your Inbox | Twitterrati — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:37:58 +0000

[...] more, check out bub.blicio.us, who believes it could be a good tool for high volume Twitter users and companies. Robert Scoble, [...]

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:28:58 +0000

It may well be a good service, but this kind of spamming is evil and sets a terrible precedent. Not only was it not clear that “support us” meant spam all of my followers, but I explicitly unchecked it! Besides, why would I endorse a tool before even having a chance to use it?

More ranting on my blog:

http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/01/01/faux-viral-maketing/

By: Faux Viral Maketing | The Noisy Channel

Faux Viral Maketing | The Noisy Channel — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:23:40 +0000

[...] extent that one can delete anything on Twitter), but I was quite annoyed. And I’m not the only [...]

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:13:41 +0000

I’m TOTALLY not a fan of any service that tweets on my behalf without authorization. Twply’s approach to do that is making sure I never use the service, and the fact that it says “support Twply” (and doesn’t explain exactly what “support” entails) makes their service notoriously bad in my opinion. All my friends have been spamming about them lately (I’m guessing that’s how you found out about it, Brian–or maybe I’m wrong).

Pix.ly, which people were abuzz about yesterday, is quite similar. You can opt out, but the small text is often missed when you first type in your username and password.

It’s nice for Twitter services to want to be known, but this is NOT the way to do it.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:05:08 +0000

It looks like you can turn off that “just started using” spam (er, tweet) at setup time.