Twitter has rolled out new functionality, starting today Twitter users will now also receive email notification when someone mentions them, retweets or favourites a tweet.

Twitter for long has already sent out email notifications notifying users of new followers and direct message, but with this new feature one can’t help but wonder how many people will actually welcome this new email notification addition.

Although it might sound like it’s convenient to receive email notifications when someone mentions or retweets you, this can become quite spammy for some users, luckily you can opt out to not receive email notifications by clicking unsubscribe on your first email notification. The options to opt out are yet to be added to your Twitter Settings page it seems.

Google buzz is Google’s latest attempt to snatch the social networking crowds away from the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Google Buzz is alright, nothing wow about it for me just one thing that really irritates me about it is the fact that it sends mail to your Gmail account for all your Buzz messages.

After some searching I found a way to disable these notifications.

1. In your Gmail account go to your inbox tab.
2. Locate and click the Create Filter link next to the Search The Web button.
3. Enter your Gmail email address in the “To” field
4. Enter “label:buzz” into the “has the words” field
5. Click Next Step and ignore the warning message.
6. Select “Skip the inbox” and “Mark as read”
7. Apply a label like “Buzz Notifications”
8. Press “Create Filter” and you should not receive buzz messages as Emails anymore

I did the above on my Gmail account and do not receive any Google Buzz messages as emails anymore. Hope this helps you!