Create a Twitter Story via E-mail

When your Inception administrator enables the E-mail Story Creation option on your Inception Server, you can create a Twitter story by sending an e-mail to your Inception Server.

To create a Twitter story via e-mail

1.Open the e-mail account associated with your Inception user account.

2.Create a new e-mail addressed to the e-mail address used for story submission.

If you do not know of the correct e-mail address for story submission, contact your administrator.

3.As the subject of the e-mail, enter the slug name for the story.

4.In the body of the e-mail, enter the text for the story.

Twitter stories can contain up to 140 characters. If you include a URL that starts with http://, Twitter counts it as 20 characters.

5.If you want to include an image with the story, attach the image file to the e-mail.

6.Send the e-mail.

Your e-mail client sends your Twitter story e-mail to Inception. Within a few minutes, Inception sends you a reply to your Twitter story e-mail.

7.Open the reply e-mail from Inception.

The body of the e-mail includes the following:

•A Twitter heading.

•Below the Twitter heading is a bulleted list of Twitter accounts through which you can create a story.

•Below each Twitter account is a bulleted list of approval options and publication options that you can request. The listed options depend on the level of your user permissions.

8.Decide which Twitter account through which to create your story, then select the account options for your story as follows:

•Click or tap the account name to create the story without approving or publishing it. In Inception, you can find the story in your Story Browser panel.

•Click or tap Request Approve to create the story, then request approval it.

•Click or tap Approve to create and approve the story.

•Click or tap Request Publish to create the story and request Inception to publish the story. As soon as an Inception user approves the story, Inception publishes the story to the selected Twitter account.

•Click or tap Publish to create, approve, and publish the story to the selected Twitter account.

After you click or tap an option, your e-mail client creates a new e-mail.

No e-mail created 

When your e-mail client does not create a new e-mail, your e-mail client does not support automatic e-mail creation. To manually create a reply e-mail manually:

a.Create a reply e-mail.

b.In the body of the e-mail, enter the account name exactly as displayed in the original e-mail.

c.Below the account name, enter the action you want to request:

•To create a story without approving or publishing it, enter nothing.

•For Approve or Request Approve, enter Approve.

For Publish or Request Publish, enter Publish.

9.Send your reply e-mail to Inception.

If you do not send a valid reply e-mail to Inception within 96 hours, Inception automatically cancels the story request and does not create the story.

For More Information on...

•adding stories to a running order, refer to the chapter Editing the Running Order.