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Topify was created by Arik Fraimovich & Ouriel Ohayon
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Topify is all about giving users back control on their Twitter notifications and interactions. When we introduced the service, we wanted to save you time and clicks. Along the way we discovered that many users wanted to change a few settings every now and then, which we had to operate manually.
Today we are introducing a very first and light version of user’s dashboard that will enable you to:
In order to have access to those options a login link is now available at the top of the home page of our site. And since we like to save you click this will be reminded to you in all our emails in the footer.
This is just the first version. Over time we’ll introduce more options that will give you even more control on your Topify emails, so you can enjoy it even more. Also it will allow us too add some major suprises we’ll announce soon.
PS: for those who did not notice, we also updated the home page design with our new feature that enable you to block or unfollow users - feature #4 (soon we ll add mark as spam in a very convenient way)
great review by a Topify Fan. liked the before/after screenshot. says everything
Not yet, but the people he follows are.
Want better Twitter email notifications? Give Topify a try - invites here.
Bringing value to our users is our number one mission here at Topify. And what can be more valuable than time? When you don’t have to go to a new follower’s profile to see that you’re aren’t interested in following him, you save a whole lot of time. When you follow him back by just replying to an email, you save the time it takes to wait for Twitter’s site to respond. And when you unfollow that pesky spammers who send you auto generated DMs, you save even more time.
All this time adds up. According to our calculation, since the day we started with Topify, we saved to our users an equivalent of 36 days of time - that’s 864 hours or 51840 minutes.
We sure hope that you do something good with that time we save you ;-)
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Topify user? If you want to help your friends to save valuable time, you can point them at our spare invites post (click here to twit the link) or just tell them to follow us on Twitter and ask for invite.
Today we received a weird email from Twimailer.com a competing service we believed it was important to share the story with our users and also with the users of this service
It is not in our practice to be critical about what a competitor do. But since this touching us directly we want to be transparent in what we think and what we do. We spotted this actor from day 1 for which we were happy (competiton is always good specially when our service is better :) ) but we also noticed some strange elements we kept for us until today.
Here is the story
Today we were offered to acquire Twimailer for a few thousands dollars. We have nothing against buying external companies although this is not part of our agenda. However we digged a little. We found worrying signs about it.
Twimailer was created by in the UK by Jon Weatley . However the email was not coming from him but from someone from Romania who claimed he acquired the domain and the application recently. We double clicked and found out this was the case (whois here). The acquisition is mentionned on Jon Weatley site but without details. The service claims several thousands users and a few other assets that between us have little value to us as is given our current growth.
We digged a little more as the email precise the service has a twitter account (@Twimailer) which is not working anymore because it was closed by Twitter. The owner claims “they forgot the password” and had to create a new one. However on the site both are still present. We also run a search on Twimailer in Twitter and found that many users are complaining about the service and registrations are closed (the company claims the service is being migrated)
What we found worrying is that the seller claims he wants to sell the domain only a few weeks after having acquired it claiming he s too busy to manage (why did he buy it in the first place btw? ). There is nothing wrong with that, but the site has no terms of services (at least we could not find any) and we don t believe it is fair to Twimailer users to sell a service without being transparent to them (specially when it is mentionned on their site “We don’t spam or do anything bad to your e-mail” )
Conclusion
New recent owner willing to sell, unclear reasons for sale, Twitter account suspended, users complaining…Needless to say we are not going to move a finger on that offer. Too many details are confusing and could even harm what we are trying to do. We are committed to a very high quality service and a continuous level of transparency as our current users can testify. Our privacy policy is displayed on our site and people know where to find us if necessary. We believe we re building a service that is here to last and don’t want our category to be harmed by story like those.
Special message to twimailer users> you do what you have to do. But in your shoes we would change the email on twitter settings. More than ever users should be careful who they give their data to. Of course we would be happy to welcome you on Topify.
update: check our story on ReadWriteWeb
