Abstract:
A method and a terminal for sharing information in an IPTV service system are disclosed herein. A method includes generating a recommendation email which carries a mailbox identifier of the recommendation recipient and an index of the recommended content and sending the recommendation email according to the mailbox identifier. Another method includes sending an email receiving request according to a preset recommendation receiving policy, receiving an email, judging whether the received email is a recommendation email and, if the received email is a recommendation email, resolving the recommendation email to obtain information about recommended content, and obtaining media stream data of the recommended content according to the information about the recommended content. The embodiments of the present disclosure implement the information sharing service without deploying any IM subsyste, thus reducing the cost.