Looks pretty cool. You probably want to at least show me what I will receive in my email before making me actually verify my email address though.
What I would really want though is a twitter client that will condense all the missed tweets since the last time I checked my feed (for which my close friends would be an important factor.)
You should probably also consider doing that for multiple platforms, which would give you something similar to Flipboard rather than yet-another-client-at-the-mercy-of-Twitter's-whims.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you just make a twitter list containing only your VIPs and check that when you want to find out? If I'm not mistaken, all this service does is email you the contents of a twitter list once a day...?
The problem with timelines is that you need to check them all the time to see if anything has changed. Also managing a list on twitter is not great, i found.
What I found from using this product in the past few weeks is that it helped me re-engage with the people I missed their tweets, either by replying or clicking through the links.
Twitter also has the dailiy / weekly digest functions, but it's organized by most popular tweets (https://twitter.com/settings/notifications). Sometimes I just want to know what my cousin back home or an ex-colleague tweeted about, which is useful for.
One thing I'd like to see is to make more than one list, or be able to set email digest for some of my existing lists.
With list you still need to scroll a timeline, and you don't really know when nothing is new. In other words. You still need to check twitter all the time.
I like the idea, but I'm starting to get a lot of this daily recap emails...And if just one of your VIPS has had several discussions on twitter on a specific day, you'll still need to scan through all that. We need only the interesting tweets from our VIPS ;)
I'm going to stick to using lists (not perfect, but easy to check out on Tweetbot).
With list you still need to scroll a timeline, and you don't really know when something is new. In other words. You still need to check twitter all the time.
With Essence you are assured you never see duplicates from tweets from your VIPs
However, Twitter already sends emails out of tweets that are popular in your network. My only concern is that they could easily shut your service down & do the same thing as your app if they wanted to.
I expected this to automatically determine my VIPs from my favorite, retweets and interactions. Making me select the people I want to add as VIPs isn't that much more beneficial than just having a Twitter list.
What I would really want though is a twitter client that will condense all the missed tweets since the last time I checked my feed (for which my close friends would be an important factor.)
You should probably also consider doing that for multiple platforms, which would give you something similar to Flipboard rather than yet-another-client-at-the-mercy-of-Twitter's-whims.