Twitter Flooding Your Mailbox?

By Luke

Twitter is currently pretty much the most hyped social network. While recent study show that Twitter is not as active as it appears, it is still steadily growing and there are no symptoms by the community yet to indicate any apathy towards the service.

Twitter revolves around two way communication where followings are usually reciprocated among twitterers and the best way of keeping track of who follows you is via the native feature of their email notifications whenever someone follows you, and sometimes you might find your inbox filled with these notifications.

While this might turn out to be difficult to manage it is required all the same to be aware of who is following you so below I have outlined the easiest way to manage these notifications.

This feature is available by most email clients and is none other than the ‘filter’ feature. Below I have outlined how you can do this with Gmail.

Sign into your Gmail account, on the top you should find ‘Create a filter’.

You’ll then be given criteria to set to filter your emails. Now, you are looking to filter all the Twitter notifications into a separate folder, so in the ‘From’ field type ‘Twitter’.

On the next page, you will be provided with a list of options of what to do when an email matches the filter criteria, check the ‘skip the inbox’ field and apply the label ‘Twitter’ to it. You might also want to apply the filter to the existing mails matching the filter criteria, if so tick the box at the bottom.

Once you create the filter all your notifications will now be sent to the ‘Twitter’ label in a separate folder separate from your inbox where you can sift through them at your own pace.

You can setup simlar filters for other email providers as well, below I’ve linked to guides on popular email clients:

And as always, if you run into any trouble, leave a comment below.

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Luke is a Software Developer and the main writer behind Computer Realm.

1 Comment so far

Marc June 17, 2009 8:48 pm

Wow that’s a great tip for those being mass followed.

I put my Twitter account on private because I was being emailed so much from people I didn’t want to affiliate with.

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