It’s likely that a normal Gmail users didn’t notice that Gmail has a lot of limitations for sending messages. Here are some of them, as mentioned in a mail from Google:
- 500 messages per day (i.e., you can hit ‘Send’ a maximum of 500 times)
- 500 unique recipients per message
- 2000 total emails per day (for example, you could send one message to a group of 500 people four times)
In addition to these limitations, “Google will temporarily disable your account if you send a message to more than 500 recipients or if you send a large number of undeliverable messages”. According to the help center, you can only send a message to up to 100 people at a time if you use POP or IMAP.
Google explains that these restrictions were created to fight against spam and to prevent abuse. The same rules are enforced for Google Apps users, as well.
Om Malik thinks that “500 messages are nothing in this day and age, especially if you are in the information business as I am” and wonders why Google doesn’t list all these restrictions.
Gmail’s Limitations for Sending Messages
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“Twitter Peek” Dedicated Twitter Device
(via 60gritbeard)
From the very beginning of the development process, I always wanted Birdfeed, the iPhone Twitter client that Neven Mrgan and I built, to feel more like like a telecommunications app (think SMS or email), than a frontend to a social web service. I think time has shown that this was the right way to think about Twitter’s future. As Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey himself has said, “Twitter’s a success for us when people stop talking about it…[when] people just use it as a utility.” More recently, I really liked the way Paul Graham explained Twitter’s importance:
Twitter is important because it’s a new protocol. Fundamentally it’s a messaging protocol where you don’t specify the recipients. It’s really more of a discovery than an invention; that square was always there in the periodic table of protocols, but no one had quite hit it squarely.
While the gadget blog I linked to above may still sneer at Twitter as a pointless tool for narcissists, I think the emergence of dedicated Twitter devices only further prove what Dorsey and Graham are saying: that Twitter (or whatever it evolves into) is the future of communications.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks89y9Zfao1qz58uno1_400.jpg)
“Twitter Peek” Dedicated Twitter Device
(via 60gritbeard)
From the very beginning of the development process, I always wanted Birdfeed, the iPhone Twitter client that Neven Mrgan and I built, to feel more like like a telecommunications app (think SMS or email), than a frontend to a social web service. I think time has shown that this was the right way to think about Twitter’s future. As Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey himself has said, “Twitter’s a success for us when people stop talking about it…[when] people just use it as a utility.” More recently, I really liked the way Paul Graham explained Twitter’s importance:
Twitter is important because it’s a new protocol. Fundamentally it’s a messaging protocol where you don’t specify the recipients. It’s really more of a discovery than an invention; that square was always there in the periodic table of protocols, but no one had quite hit it squarely.While the gadget blog I linked to above may still sneer at Twitter as a pointless tool for narcissists, I think the emergence of dedicated Twitter devices only further prove what Dorsey and Graham are saying: that Twitter (or whatever it evolves into) is the future of communications.
LeWeb founders present the 2009 speakers
Agence de services web implantée en Martinique.
