Twitter notifications have a-changed

So for those of you, like me, who checked their email in the last hour, you'll have noticed that you've suddenly started recieving emails any time you were sent a reply or mentioned on Twitter. Same goes for retweets, or if your tweets are marked as favourites. As birthday boy Bob Dylan might have said, "Twitter, it is a changin'"*




Now the easy thing to do is sign in, go to settings and click on the notifications tab. There you can select what emails you want to get or don't want to get.

It was a bit unexpected to see a schwack of emails in my inbox. A flurry quite similar to spam. OK in a Twitter stream but not so much in my inbox. I understand why they defaulted everyone to recieve emails for everything - much easier to indicate to everyone there is a change by making it happen then to send an email. And a whole hell of a lot cheaper too.

But it does beg the question why it matters or not if I tick the box that says I want an email for: "Product or service updates related to my Twitter account." Wouldn't this consist as an update?

Note: This is not a result of the rapture nor will it change the world. Neither will this blog post.

*And please don't hate me cause I'm cheesy :)