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Today one of my bots alerted me about one of my other bots

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We live in an age with an increasing number of bots that are able to alert you of new content online. I have one such bot set up to alert me whenever there are tweets containing the phrase “Chicago Croquet”. When such a tweet appears, my bot sends me an email to let me know. …

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The prize for being subscribed to an email newsletter for 5+ years

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When I’m subscribed to an email list for over five years, I feel like I should get a prize; and thus I hesitate when considering unsubscribing. You know those email newsletters you pass by every week without reading. I bet you sometimes “clean house” and unsubscribe to a bunch of them. But are there some …

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Twitter is becoming an email publisher

Leave a Comment / How we discover, How we read / By Matt Maldre

Ever get an email notification that someone faved one of your tweets? It’s pretty nice. Now have you ever gotten a notification that someone you follow faved someone else’s tweet? If used sparingly, they can be nice little tips to point out a tweet you never saw. Unfortunately, it seems twitter sends many of these …

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“Mark as read” should be available in Facebook and Twitter

3 Comments / How we read / By Matt Maldre

In email, you can mark emails as read. In Google Reader, you can mark posts as read. Why can’t we mark tweets as read? Why can’t we mark Facebook posts as read? I can understand why we can’t do this in Facebook. The developers of Facebook control the interface completely, so they must want us …

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