The phrase "amount of emails" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct term is "number of emails," as "amount" is used for uncountable nouns while "number" is used for countable nouns like "emails."
Example: "The number of emails I received today was overwhelming."
Alternatives: "volume of emails" or "count of emails."
"You can't believe the amount of emails and tweets I've been getting," said Steve McNamara, general secretary of the LTDA.
What I found when I opened my laptop was a mindboggling amount of emails, hate mail, death threats, and interview requests.
If you use the site a lot, you might get a normal amount of emails - if you only check it once in a blue moon, you'll stop getting multiple emails in a day.
On the site, its creators describe themselves as American "hacktivists" who aim to "publish a large amount of emails from top-ranking officials and their influence agents all over the world".
"The amount of emails I get – my agent gets emails from billionaire businessmen who now want to get involved because when you see franchise values of sports teams in America they skyrocket quickly.
The objective here isn't to minimise the amount of emails being sent – no one is in a position to judge how many emails "should" be sent, since this depends on a multitude of factors.
Judging by the amount of email, texts, tweets I've had, I don't think anyone is asking me to apologise.
I also have yet to see any compelling evidence that each additional publication of my email address accounts for any uptick in the amount of email that penetrates my filters.
But the potential for digital technologies and even simply increasing the amount of email, Skype and phone consultations could make a big difference.
Convo, along with Yammer, Jive, and others, are working to lower the amount of email sent inside of companies.
But we all still get a good amount of email that I would best categorize as "social".
