Twitter follower emails, now in HTML!

Twitter's notification emails when you get a new follower have been in plain text since the site started. Today, Twitter finally rolled out a richer, HTML version of their follower notification emails. These emails include the number of people that this user is following and how many are following them back, along with their total number of updates tweeted.

This is a big step up from Twitter's old follower notification system. With the old system, you were just blindly clicking into their account with no knowledge of the user. While it's still not perfect, at least getting a look at the follower/following numbers can help to weed out the spammers. Ideally, Twitter should include the user's bio, along with their last few tweets so that users can really make an educated decision as to whether or not it's worth checking out the profile.

At this time, it doesn't appear that users can choose between plain text and HTML emails. Twitter seems to moved completely to HTML-based emails. While this may have been a concern in the past, realistically any modern email client or service can handle emails in HTML.

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[RF373]

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[wchingya]

Good. At least it shows a pic, and the numbering details for the updates/follow etc. Think I would be happier if the user's bio is shown in the email, along with recent update as the numbers don't really tell me much about this person, and I'll be over to their Twitter page anyhow, just like before.

Anyway, it's an improvement for Twitter, so way to go.

[Vickiejazz]

That seems like a valuable tool. I use twitter for its value - I share value therefore I receive value - My tweets will never contain mundane info that is irrelevant to my followers - so those that want to tag on, I want to know what they are about, too - I have a column in tweetdeck to follow those that really interest me - I believe it's the searchability tools that make twitter valuable for me, at least. Not quantity, as it is for some "gamers." Thanks again for the post!

Vickie
@Vickie_Smith

[cp256]

HTML emails suck, there should always be an option for plain text only and not yapoo's or shotmail's munged plain text either.

[AndrewRich]

They also have changed the from: and to: addresses several times in the last couple of days, wreaking repeated havoc on my mail processing rules. Have they finished?

[nmsindia]

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