Spot on. It was a bait and switch and violation of TOS.
Chirpify has been enabling in-stream commerce and payments on Twitter for over a year now. Also in-stream on Instagram and Facebook. No TOS violations http://chirpify.com
Chirpify has been enabling in-stream commerce and payments on Twitter for over a year now. Also in-stream on Instagram and Facebook. http://chirpify.com
The problem for the hacker is that in order to get paid their fake Twitter account would need to be connected to a real PayPal account which is connected to a real bank account. The entire chain of transaction would be very traceable.
If your Twitter account is hacked you are going to immediately realize you are transacting over Twitter. You'd see pay tweets and transaction tweets occurring in real time. You could then easily just shut off your PayPal connection to Twitter in your Sell Simply account. We do not store any Twitter or PayPal login, password or account data at all.
Second, after authorizing your account you can buy, sell, donate or direct pay all you want. The initial setup is one step. After that it's frictionless commerce.
Third, you'll want to buy stuff for the same reason you want to buy stuff on any other e-commerce channel. Even more so when Brands will be offering special Twitter only deals.
Finally, it's genuinely useful for so many people. Just ask the food cart owner who is using our Direct Payments to collect payments. Or, the Etsy seller who can now sell their goods on Twitter. Just a few examples of current uses.
To illustrate just one problem it solves: Currently, brands list items in their storefronts. Then they go on Twitter and Tweet about it. Then a customer clicks on a link in the Tweet and is taken off Twitter to their storefront. Then the customer goes through 5 more clicks before a transaction occurs. Sell Simply eliminates all of that. The Tweet is the listing and the checkout and the transaction combined in one. One step frictionless commerce. That's a brand solution. There are others.
Normal people are using it, by the thousands. This will only grow.
This wasn't thought up by a SM guru, but by a hacker like yourself.
Not the same thing. That is the author trading retweets for a book. Sell Simply actually turns Tweets into transactions. You can pay, buy, sell or donate with them.
Thanks for the feedback. Sincerely appreciate it. It's simpler for several reasons...
1. You don't need a credit card.
2. You don't need to be physically with the person or business you're paying.
4. In a store setting there would be no more waiting in a checkout line to pay.
5. Sending one Tweet is certainly simpler than pulling out a wallet, swiping a credit card, waiting for a response, then signing.
I ran an interactive services agency that tried to bootstrap products with services. It doesn't work. The time consumption of doing services is far too great a commitment to adequately perform the duties required to make your startup a success.
Comparing fund raising time commitment to ongoing contract work is not apples to apples. Fund raising takes time, but it's time spent on your startup. Also, it's a one or two time thing, not the unending time suck that is services.
There's a reason there are innumerable posts about the failures of bootstrapping products with services.
On the flip side, as a client I would be quite weary of hiring a startup team to do a project. If the startup takes off (even a bit) then be damn sure that startup team is out like the gout! There's not much incentive to complete the gig.
Not trying to be negative here, but I see a lot of holes in this business.
Services work for startups? Services is a distraction to startups. Also, if I wanted to go that route, I could get my own services work or use an agency. Am I missing something here, guys?
Good thoughtful response. And, we actually use the same process. I do use Photoshop for elements, buttons, logos etc as you do. To be clear, what I stated in the post is I don't do ui or ux or layout in PS.
I'm not crapping on anyone.
I came up as a designer, with fundamentals. Actually I was a print designer. Even more fundamental.
I don't know code better than design. Nor do I know design better than code.
I wrote the post to relay the method I use to design, highlight it's efficiencies, express opinions on process, and hopefully inspire more to try it out.
Chirpify has been enabling in-stream commerce and payments on Twitter for over a year now. Also in-stream on Instagram and Facebook. No TOS violations http://chirpify.com