Grab your social email signature
April 5, 2010 at 4:05 pm scott 32 comments
Introducing the social email signature, a fresh take on the standard email signature.
Your threadsy social signature lets you easily share more of your online life in every email message you send, such as your photo and profiles on sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, and many more.
You can customize everything in your social signature. To edit it, first click the Inbound ‘compose’ button. You’ll see a default social signature at the bottom of the compose box. Click anywhere on the signature to edit it. Also note you can easily remove the signature from the message you’re composing by clicking the ‘x’ in its upper right corner. If you want to turn the signature off permanently, uncheck the ‘signature’ box to the right of the text toolbar.
In the social signature edit screen, you can customize the following:
- your name
- additional text: space for whatever you want, such as your preferred email address, phone number, skype name
- your photo: choose from any photos threadsy knows about
- your websites: choose from any that threadsy knows about. To see the website name, hover over the site’s icon
This is our first take on the social signature and we’d love to hear your feedback. What do you think so far? Anything you’d really like to see us change or add?
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blacksailstattoo | April 5, 2010 at 4:13 pm
I’d like to be able to have different sigs for different emails.
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Bernardo | April 5, 2010 at 4:34 pm
This, and the ability to make it just a simple text signature. I just generally put my name and site into the signature (according to what email I’m responding to, different sites).
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Joe Ross | April 27, 2010 at 7:38 am
agreed
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Randy | April 5, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Great start, would love to see it have the ability to add other social networks and link to google profiles
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James | April 5, 2010 at 4:34 pm
loving the forward progress at Threadsy !
Keep up the fine work team
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Anthony Broad-Crawford | April 5, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Love everything except for your gigantic logo you shoved in there.
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Don | April 6, 2010 at 3:30 am
I love Threadsy, but agreed, too big, my friends are going to think I’ve changed jobs.
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Dan | May 5, 2010 at 12:32 pm
I would make good use of this for business. The ability to remove the logo and use multiple signatures is a must for me to make use of it. I’m not sure if you plan on having a “pro” feature-set… but it’d definitely be a great service with those options.
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Naveen | April 5, 2010 at 6:10 pm
I love this feature as it was long awaited… keep progressing and giving us more good features. Please introduce something like facebook notes, where I can write notes and post them straight on my profile from thredsy.
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Erik Kullenberg | April 5, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Awesome!! The ability to choose a alternate signature on the fly would be fantastic!
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Erik Kullenberg | April 5, 2010 at 6:29 pm
One more thing… Some of the companies I work with require a privacy disclosure at the bottom of the signature. Would be nice to have another text field BELOW the social network icons…
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Maggie | April 6, 2010 at 11:46 am
I hate your huge logo shoved into the signature. I do not want people to think I am working for Threadsy, sorry.
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threadsy | April 6, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Got it. Did you get your tee?
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Anthony | April 6, 2010 at 11:53 am
Yeah unfortunately the Giant Logo is a deal breaker for me too …
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Jason Baker | April 6, 2010 at 12:09 pm
I might be missing something but I don’t know how to add linked in and other links I see in the screenshot, also the flickr link is not to my flickr account, is there a way to edit the address of the social icons?
Other than that I really like it! helps promote @Threadsy and looks really good!
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threadsy | April 6, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Right now in this version you can only add the links to sites that threadsy knows about and you can’t edit the addresses of the links.
In the future we plan on making the signature more customizable.
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saklas | April 6, 2010 at 6:49 pm
having the edit signature at the settings will be more intuitive
and keep the edit sign at the compose at the same time.
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Sean Patterson | April 7, 2010 at 8:29 am
I’m typically against big signatures, but there’s something about this one that I like. I don’t mind having the threadsy logo on the side since I’m still lovin’ threadsy.
I guess the next question is how I can configure my Threadsy account to recognize my blog so I can add that to the signature icons somehow.
Keep up the awesome work guys!
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threadsy | April 7, 2010 at 11:19 am
Hey everyone, thanks for the feedback. Based on this, we’ve dialed down the size of the threadsy logo and will push that live in our next release.
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Sachin Rekhi | April 7, 2010 at 12:28 pm
I love this concept! Very useful feature for users and help to spread the Threadsy love. It’s the modern incarnation of the original Hotmail signatures.
Have you seen the WeeWorld signatures? They allow you to create a WeeMee avatar and then put it in your signature. What i like about it is that it adds self expression to the signatures as well. Something to think about!
http://www.weeworld.com/
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threadsy | April 21, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Hey everyone,
Based on your feedback, we’ve dialed down the size of the threadsy logo in the signature by 30%.
Also we changed the tagline from “grab your social signature!” to “sent from threadsy”
Also note that you can use HTML anywhere in the text fields to customize your signature even more.
We’ll continue to improve this going forward.
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Erik Kullenberg | April 21, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Like the changes, but pasting source code from notepad for different signatures is a pain. Need a means to select alternate signatures!
PLEASE HURRY!
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threadsy opens to the public! « threadsy blog | May 4, 2010 at 8:52 am
[...] custom social email signatures [...]
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debusk | May 5, 2010 at 6:32 am
Threadsy logo is still WAY TO BIG!
Help stop the pain and branding yourselves like this. It’s going to kill your service before it really has a chance to get off the ground.
You don’t see Gmail with a huge logo in the signature each time you send a message from your “normal” email account do you?
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threadsy | May 20, 2010 at 2:50 pm
We’ll consider making it smaller, thanks for the feedback.
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Matthew | May 17, 2010 at 6:26 am
“Right now in this version you can only add the links to sites that threadsy knows about…”
How do I make Threadsy “know” about my flickr or Pandora account (as pictured)? I only seem to be able to connect to either Facebook or Twitter under social networks.
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threadsy | May 20, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Currently you can’t add your other sites. Please see here for a workaround solution for now: http://getsatisfaction.com/threadsy/topics/adding_new_social_networks_to_threadsy_profile_signature
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some Tuesday Tweaks « threadsy blog | June 8, 2010 at 3:35 pm
[...] threadsy logo in social signature We heard your feedback and reduced the size of the threadsy logo by 70%. We also shortened the threadsy link language. [...]
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threadsy | June 8, 2010 at 3:52 pm
We changed the social signature design today. Smaller logo, shorter link text. Please let us know your feedback on the new blog post here:
http://blog.threadsy.com/2010/06/08/some-tuesday-tweaks/
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dv0rsky | July 12, 2010 at 10:48 am
great! when will other users have this functions too? i like flickr the most
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threadsy | July 12, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Glad you like it. Not sure what you’re asking?
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Darryl Kraemer | August 4, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Very slick threadsy. Nice addition. Slowing reeling me in from my gmail addiction.