The purpose of Tweial is to be an all-purpose Twitter-to-email client. Schedule Tweial to run at an interval of your choosing (15 minutes, 1 hour, etc.). When Tweial runs, it will:
You want an application like Tweial because it's the difference between pulling information and pushing information. I basically check only one thing all day, and that's my email's inbox. If it comes to my inbox (i.e it's "pushed" to me) I'll read it and respond. However if it doesn't come to my inbox, it's very unlikely I'll remember to go get it (i.e. "pull" it to me). So this is why I created Tweial - to automatically "push" tweets to my inbox.