5 Free Ways to Never Miss a Twitter @Reply

There are plenty of Twitter apps and clients offering brand monitoring and keyword alert services, but if you’re only one person, you may want a more lightweight way of keeping track of what people are saying about you on the micro-blogging service.

To this end, we’ve found five free, web-based Twitter services that will let you know via e-mail each time you are on the receiving end of an @mention, or get an @reply.

Have a read through our picks below to see which one might suit your needs, and let us know your thoughts. If there are any services you’ve used that didn’t make the list, share them in the comments box.

1. Twitstra

About as lightweight as services come, Twitstra is a study in minimalist app design. Sign in to the service using OAuth, enter the e-mail address you’d like the alerts to go to, wait for the confirmation link e-mail to come through, then hit the link and you’re all set up.

Twitstra will then send you an e-mail every time a tweet mentions your Twitter name. Pretty much as instantaneous as you could expect, a Twitstra alert e-mail tells you who has referenced you in the subject line and then provides the full tweet in the body of the e-mail in plain text.

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