Your followers can pick from:
- Newspaper: One email per day, containing all the messages from the last 24 hours
- Single emails: As soon as a new story is published and picked up by our system, a notification gets sent to your followers by email.
Note: if your feed publishes several stories per day, this may lead to information overload. In this case we suggest you to keep Newspaper selected as default delivery channel.
- News page: The news page is the user’s follow.it account where all stories are displayed when logged in (only those from the feeds where news page was selected as delivery channel of course!)
- RSS: Users can copy & paste the feed page URL into their RSS readers and consume your news this way. If you’re not familiar with RSS, please read What is RSS?
To see an example for the delivery channels followers can pick from, have a look at Techcrunch’s follow page.
We’re currently working on several additional delivery channels. This also includes a mobile app for iPhone and Android. However, people can already follow you via mobile, as everybody opens emails on mobile. Even when the mobile channels are available the focus on making users follow you via email will not change.
Offering a wide choice of channels is important because:
- Users have different preferences, so if a wide choice is provided, it is more likely that followers find a channel they like – and follow you!
- Users follow you via multiple channels, for example users may decide to follow you both via email, browser push and news page – increasing chances that they see your notifications, click on them, and get back to your site!
As publisher you can decide what the default selections should be when people follow you. You can also limit the available delivery channels to your followers. Read more on How can I set the (default) delivery channels?
