Twitter makes anecdotes (anecdata?) travel amongst physically dispersed groups at the same speed it travels down those in the same corridors. And, under some scenarios, gossip makes things different. In moderately political environments, where decisions get made for reasons that some may not be happy with. I wonder what would happen if EyeSpyNestle was created for those working in the entire chain who know how PR and reality are different. Secrets have a habit of getting out.

After a conversation at rewired state, here’s how to set up a EyeSpy type feed on twitter.

  1. Create a gmail account (or wherever) – this is the email address you’ll publish for submissions
  2. Create a twitter account – with whatever name you wish
  3. Click the link in the email that twitter sends to the email address you used to register.
  4. Register with http://www.tweetbymail.com/and copy the address you’re given for tweeting
  5. Go to “Gmail -> Settings -> Forwarding” then in the “forward a copy of incoming mail to” and enter the tweetbymail email address and save settings
  6. Go to tweetbymail, and modify the settings to only post the subject line, not the message body
  7. Send a test email, and the subject should appear in your twitter stream.
  8. Turn off the twitter email updates about followers and messages. Set up the other profile information on your twitter account
  9. Turn off various options on your twitterbymail account.

These instructions might be missing a step (I’ve not checked them exactly against reality); drop me an email if you find a problem, or the 3 services change things.