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Wish there was a web app that brought together your email, twitter and Facebook into one, easy to deal with place?  Threadsy is the answer.  I’ve been using it for over a month and it keeps getting better.  Today, I’ve got invites (500) thanks to the fine folks at Threadsy.

The service is still in beta but operation is far better than it was just 30 days ago.  The team is working fast and seems very responsive.  Here is quick recap on how Threadsy works:

Inbound

In the left pane, email is displayed along with @me Twitters and Facebook messages.  The idea is to have only the stuff that was specifically directed to you be in your inbox.  You can choose to view all of this or just the incoming mail from individual providers (like just Twitter).  Users can search through messages and this search was surprisingly fast.  Emails can be composed as either quick replies right from this screen or open and reply seeing the full message.

Unbound

In the right pane (which users can control its width), are the streams you follow from Twitter and Facebook.  As with the Inbound pane, you can choose to filter just Facebook or Twitter streams or view them all.  Another tab on top allows you to access GMail chat, which is very handy.

What’s better?

By bringing Twitter, Facebook and my mail together, I get instant context in reply to friends.  Let’s say I get an email from Gadgetell Editor, Robert Nelson.  Threadsy shows me his latest status updates from Facebook, his bio and his latest Tweets in the right hand pane.  I know what he is doing, how he feels, making my reply that much better.  It is very handy and very powerful.  Incidentally, this is the idea behind Motorola’s Blur UI for Android.  It is a winning idea.

I really like the way Threadsy lets users hover over a message and select delete, archive or quick reply without opening the message.  I am able to work through my GMail much faster.

What’s not?

Notifications on Chat is less than alerting.  The other big thing missing, for me at least, is how GMail handles attachments.  I rarely download anything anymore thanks to “preview in html” and that is missing from Threadsy. 

For me, these are small trade-offs for keeping on top of my communication (or at least believing so).  Check it out and let us know what you think, below is the special invite link just for Gadgetell readers.

Invite link: [Threadsy]