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How to Use Topify Securely

Posted on May 2, 2009 | 6 Comments

Topify is a great new service to make your Twitter life easier and more efficient. However, it requires you to change your Twitter email to a custom Topify address which, for many people, is a bit too risky. Here are two approaches you can take to use Topify without giving up complete control of your Twitter email address.

How to Safely Use Topify with Gmail Forwarding

The standard method of using Topify requires you to change your Twitter email address to your new custom Topify address. However, that could put you in a bind if Topify goes down or is unavailable for any reason. The solution is to keep your Twitter email address as something you control but configure it so that it saves and forwards all Twitter mail to Topify.

There are two basic ways of doing this:

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Topify Makes Twitter Following Easier

Posted on May 1, 2009 | 8 Comments

Topify is a great Twitter tool to help manage your follower requests. It saves you a lot of time and removes a lot of the headaches associated with new Twitter followers. The three main features are:

Improved twitter email notifications

Follow back users with a simple email reply

Reply to direct messages via email

I’ve been using the service for only a short time, but it has dramatically improved my overall Twitter experience and saves me a ton of time. The two main Topify isssues are:

It requires your Twitter username and password to do its magic
You need to set your Twitter email to a new custom Topify address

There’s not much to be done for that first issue, but there are some options to make the second one more “secure”. Despite these issues, Topify is well worth the effort.

Topify Feature: Improved Twitter Email Notifications

The new follower Topify email gives you all the details you need to quickly determine whether or not you will want to follow back. This makes ignoring SPAM users and others very simple since you have all you the necessary data right in the email. Let’s visually compare the default Twitter email with the new Topify email:

From Twitter: