Here’s a brief history of Tweetfave – my new free service that automatically emails your Twitter favorites to your inbox.
This project started as one of those “wouldn’t it be useful if…” projects, as an addition to Twitter. I was already using the Twitter favorite feature to bookmark tweets and links to read later, and wanted a way to automatically receive those (short of going to my profile page and viewing my own favorites). Combine that with an interest in learning the Twitter API, and the project was underway.
As I started writing this, I was a bit surprised as to just how long I’ve been working on this. Here’s the history timeline I came up with…