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The footer in the email sent with DMs is misleading
When you get a DM via email, it has a footer which looks like this:
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follow me at http://twitter.com/tj
reply on the web at http://twitter.com/direct_messages/cr...
send me a direct message from your phone or IM: D tj your message here.
turn off these email notifications at: http://twitter.com/account/notifications
Problems:
#1) You aren't going to GET a DM from me unless you are already following me, so the first line "follow me at http://twitter.com/tj" is completely unnecessary.
#2) While it USED to be true that ANYONE could DM you (even if you were not following them) by using a link such as "http://twitter.com/direct_messages/create/TWITTERNAME" that loophole was closed months ago.
So the 2nd line, which says
"reply on the web at http://twitter.com/direct_messages/cr..."
may or may not work depending on whether or not the person who receives the email is followed by the person who sent the DM.
#3) The 3rd line references interacting with Twitter via IM, which, well, we all know how productive THAT is going to be. It also suggests that you can DM the sender via SMS which (again) is only true if the person who sent the message is someone who also follows you.
#4) The 4th line is mostly OK, except that it, like all the others, isn't capitalized properly and looks a little sloppy.
Twitter *could* customize the footer depending on whether or not there is a "friendship" between the two, but of course that could change even in the interim between sending of the DM and the email being received/read.
I'd suggest simply re-wording it to make it more clear, and drop the reference to IM until it works again, and drop the "Follow me" line since it makes no sense.
I'll use TNAME to represent the Twittername of the person who sent you the DM:
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If TNAME also follows you, you can reply to this DM either:
* on the web at: http://twitter.com/direct_messages/cr...
* via SMS on your phone: D TNAME your message here
Want to turn off email notifications? http://twitter.com/account/notifications
--
follow me at http://twitter.com/tj
reply on the web at http://twitter.com/direct_messages/cr...
send me a direct message from your phone or IM: D tj your message here.
turn off these email notifications at: http://twitter.com/account/notifications
Problems:
#1) You aren't going to GET a DM from me unless you are already following me, so the first line "follow me at http://twitter.com/tj" is completely unnecessary.
#2) While it USED to be true that ANYONE could DM you (even if you were not following them) by using a link such as "http://twitter.com/direct_messages/create/TWITTERNAME" that loophole was closed months ago.
So the 2nd line, which says
"reply on the web at http://twitter.com/direct_messages/cr..."
may or may not work depending on whether or not the person who receives the email is followed by the person who sent the DM.
#3) The 3rd line references interacting with Twitter via IM, which, well, we all know how productive THAT is going to be. It also suggests that you can DM the sender via SMS which (again) is only true if the person who sent the message is someone who also follows you.
#4) The 4th line is mostly OK, except that it, like all the others, isn't capitalized properly and looks a little sloppy.
Twitter *could* customize the footer depending on whether or not there is a "friendship" between the two, but of course that could change even in the interim between sending of the DM and the email being received/read.
I'd suggest simply re-wording it to make it more clear, and drop the reference to IM until it works again, and drop the "Follow me" line since it makes no sense.
I'll use TNAME to represent the Twittername of the person who sent you the DM:
--
If TNAME also follows you, you can reply to this DM either:
* on the web at: http://twitter.com/direct_messages/cr...
* via SMS on your phone: D TNAME your message here
Want to turn off email notifications? http://twitter.com/account/notifications
I’m adding an emotion because apparently this increased the likelihood that people will answer my question, which seems dubious to me, but who am I to question the wisdom of an ajax reply-o-meter?
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