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At first glance Anothr is an RSS to IM service, others are immedi.at, Yahoo! Alerts, ZapTXT, Rasasa, NewsGator for Yahoo! Messenger, Blog Change Bot, Blastfeed, InstantFeed, Zingku, Queoo, Feed Crier.

The difference here is that Anothr allows you to talk to it via IM eg. “?”, it will IM back a help menu, eg. subscribe to a feed “+ feedURL”, eg. unsubscribe from a feed “-32″…see more, here is the command list.

The other major difference is that it is not just a feature, but an actual web-based RSS Reader, you even get a page where it lists your shared feeds…I recall feeds.reddit having this feature.

If you are offline, then all updates are saved in your feedlog…you can star and share items.

So let’s get the flow of this:

- By IM you can read posts, subscribe/unsubscribe to, see your feed set, pause/replay feeds, etc…
- Web based feed management where you can pause, tag, share, delete your feeds
- Feedlog section is a web based RSS Reader, read “All items”, “Undelivered by IM”, read your “Shared items” or read your “Starred items”, read by tag or read by feed.
NOTE: you cannot mark read/unread, but you do have a calendar based archive

Here’s my shared feeds page, if I click on a feed it will display a list of people who subscribe to that feed.

Check out all feeds that have been tagged web2.0 by the Anothr community, it will list related people, ie. people who use this tag…this makes for a great feed discovery service.
Check out the hot feeds.

You can even set your alert intervals, see Touchstone for feed attention management.

30 boxes has released a new version of it’s Twapper 2.0b Twitter mashup just type in a user name.

See johnt and friends on Twapper, I thought clicking on just johnt would show my updates without my friends.

You can now hack up groups so you can see a selection of user spaces in the one space, here is johnt, elsua, and ChrisSaad, it seems this one only shows posts from these 3 users, not inlcuding their friends posts.
Bookmark this page to just see this group stream.

If this page would generate a feed I could convert it to email and be able to just follow a few people.

The Twapper stream will also show thumbnail images of links to Flickr items.

If you want more you’ll have to join 30 boxes, here is their message:

“Pssst. You can update, send direct and group messages through twapper. Join 30 Boxes, add twitter to your Web Stuff, and post an update to twitter from our Status line. Then login on your mobile and you are good to go!”

As I’ve mentioned I like using a cost effective method of using Twitter on the go, and this is by using EmailTwitter.com.

I can post updates to Twitter using my phone email, this is great…I can also do this using mail2twitter.

But where EmailTwitter.com shines is that once you have posted an update you get an auto-reply email listing the 5 latest updates from your friends (this has gone up from 1 to 5 since my last post…instant feedback, thanks guys…blog and you shall receive).

Another request of mine has also been added within 24 hours of my request, now you can send a blank email and receive the last 5 updates from your friends.

NOTE: If you haven’t registered you must include your login and password in the subject line eg. twitter johnt 1234.
If you have registered, the subject line can be left blank both when posting updates and when requesting friends updates.

A second method of requesting updates is sending a blank email to timeline@emailtwitter.com.

The final treat is direct messages via email, you don’t even have to use the direct message command.

Send Post

To: twitter@emailtwitter.com

Subject: twitter johnt 1234

Body: I like coffee

NOTE: If you have registered at emailtwitter.com you can leave the subject line blank

Receive last 5 updates UPDATE: now last 10 Tweets by default

To: twitter@emailtwitter.com

Subject: twitter johnt 1234

Body: [leave this blank]

NOTE: If you have registered at emailtwitter.com you can leave the subject line blank

OR

To: timeline@emailtwitter.com

Subject: twitter johnt 1234

Body: [leave this blank]

NOTE: If you have registered at emailtwitter.com you can leave the subject line blank

Specify how many updates posts you want (max. 20) UPDATE: see comment

To: timeline@emailtwitter.com

Subject: twitter johnt 1234

Body: 18

NOTE: If you have registered at emailtwitter.com you can leave the subject line blank

Specify how many updates posts you want and limited to a person (max. 20) UPDATE: see comment

To: timeline@emailtwitter.com

Subject: twitter johnt 1234

Body: 18 elsua

NOTE: If you have registered at emailtwitter.com you can leave the subject line blank

Send Direct Message

To: elsua@emailtwitter.com

Subject: twitter johnt 1234

Body: I heard your podcast the other day great stuff!

NOTE: If you have registered at emailtwitter.com you can leave the subject line blank

Feedback

Am I able to request how many updates I want to receive? UPDATE: see comment.
eg. last 5 updates, last 10 updates, last 100 updates
When using the timeline address we could use the “body field” to request the number of updates
eg.
To: timeline@emailtwitter.com
Subject: twitter johnt 1234
Body: 30

Can I request the last 5, 10, 100 updates limited to a selection of friends? UPDATE: see comment.
eg.
To: timeline@emailtwitter.com
Subject: twitter johnt 1234
Body: 30 elsua steverubel bokardo ChrisSaad

Or, can this be done on a time basis, ie. updates from friends in the 30mins, 60mins, 180mins, etc…
eg.
To: timeline@emailtwitter.com
Subject: twitter johnt 1234
Body: 30mins elsua steverubel bokardo ChrisSaad

Am I able to check if I have any direct messages? SEE UPDATE BELOW
eg.
To: direct@emailtwitter.com
Subject: twitter johnt 1234
Body: [leave this blank]

Receive Direct Messages : UPDATE 5/04/07

To: messages@emailtwitter.com

Subject: twitter johnt 1234

Body: [leave this blank]

NOTE: If you have registered at emailtwitter.com you can leave the subject line blank