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The Coolest Email Trick
Foreword

This post was originally published on my old blog, Aspires. I’ve tried to make a few edits as possible to the original contents. Mostly fixing links, images, and formatting. I hope you enjoy.

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If I Was In It For The Clicks I’d Title This ‘This Email SuperHack Will Save You Hours’

Until today, I had no idea that adding a number to the end of your email address before the ’@’ symbol could allow you to theoretically create infinite email addresses.

I discovered this little thing while trying to circumvent “single email per account” restrictions on Twitter. I had seen my buddy Braxton send me an example of it earlier, but to be honest I thought he was joking with me. It wasn’t until today that I decided to send a test email to myself and it worked!

How Do I Do It?

It’s incredibly simple! Just add a number! Literally!

myemail@example.com becomes myemail+2@example.com

Wrap Up

Now, you might have known about this for years, but I find it incredible that something as basic as email still has secrets to hold for me. I was one of the 10,000 today. Maybe you were too!?