What a strange coincidence! Just after I had my write up about Topify yesterday; today Twitter is rolling out a new Email Notification.

It’s obviously an improvement from the old one, as it now shows the follower’s avatar, followings/followers and tweets count. But it is still far from what Topify is providing.
Though it begs the same question that also follows Twitter’s decision to switch from TinyURL to Bit.ly, is Twitter going to acquire these third-party services, like it did with Summize, and incorporate them into Twitter proper, like it did with Twitter Search?
Bytheway, if you still haven’t used Topify, here are some beta invites that you can use to try it rightaway.
Update:
And here is the Direct Message Notification:

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