Improving Twitter - how about emailed tweets

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[13thconstant]

When using Twitter on your phone the tweets and other info would be sent to you via text and I would Tweet a lot more if all that info could go through my email which I can access on my phone and not spend money on texts. I know tons of people who feel the same. This would be great.

[kenrg]

Good comment, but I think it's better to compare Twitter to conversation in a pub; you may occasionally learn something, but most of it is just passing the time. For me, the comparison to the letter I want saved might be more along the lines of a blog post that will be archived and read again. But still, I do get your point.

[kenrg]

I get the direct messages through email, but getting the @replies/mentions by email would be interesting. I have experimented with getting my @s in bloglines (dot-com) as an RSS feed, but I still find I check first on Twhirl or Echofon (I rarely actually go to the Twitter web site and prefer to use different client apps).

[AlanMolstad]

Internet "friends" are because we are able to correspond in this manner.

But unlike the letters sent back and forth between people in my dad's generation, the thing that is different now is that all of my words are tossed away .

Nothing is saved.

Nothing is passed on.

It all just get buried under a ever-growing mountain of text.

Unread, unremembered, and moot

Twitter is a way to make our words moot the fastest.

[lphillips84]

I'm not even old and when I was a kid only really lucky kids got cellphones and such. Now every kid has a laptop and cellphone, etc...It's pretty crazy. Makes me wonder if people even really know their friends or what the real world is like. Everyone socializes digitally more than face to face. Most people would say they have more friends online than "in real life" it's pretty sad. Don't get me wrong, the ability to know more is amazing, but there is more to life than the internet and cellphones

[AlanMolstad]

I hope it all fades away...

Twitter

Facebook

The internet itself...

Just fade away , being replaced with something more interesting.

Something that makes more money, because sooner or later all this free stuff on the web is going to come crashing down.

[AlanMolstad]

Ever seen what kids are doing as of late?

They all are playing on their phones.

Cell phones that none of them bought with their own money...

I watched a bunch of kids come off the school bus the other day.

Every one of them was busy texting.

None looked up.

None talked to each other.

None noticed the weather or the drive home.

[AlanMolstad]

Twitter is for kids...