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Ask HN: e-mail-based Twitter monitoring?

I'm guessing someone's done it already, but if not, I might build it. Essentially, I'm looking for a way to receive an e-mail alert whenever a specific term comes up on Twitter. I know one way to do this is to set an RSS feed off of search.twitter.com, but that still requires my checking an RSS feed ... I'd like something that automatically comes to me in my e-mail inbox. (I guess I could set up an RSS-to-e-mail forwarding service to do this, but this seems like a fair amount of overhead for what should be a simple operation.)

So ... anybody have a link to a service that does this?

( 4 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: e-mail-based Twitter monitoring? by esessoms on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @08:43AM (#1413709)
Re:Ask HN: e-mail-based Twitter monitoring? by charliepark on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @08:49AM (#1413728)
That does it! Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: e-mail-based Twitter monitoring? by pierrefar on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @08:48AM (#1413724)
You can also use Yahoo! Alerts to monitor a RSS feed and email you new items: http://alerts.yahoo.com/
Re:Ask HN: e-mail-based Twitter monitoring? by jazzychad on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @11:27AM (#1414191)