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Twitter developing e-commerce service
Yahoo! News / Agence France-Presse ^ | February 1, 2014

Posted on 02/01/2014 8:27:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Twitter is exploring ways to sell products directly from the 140-character missives the one-to-many text messaging service site is famous for, a technology news site has reported.

Re/Code on Friday posted a screen shot of what this new service could look like, integrated into the site's familiar baby blue interface.

It said it found the image posted on e-commerce site Fancy.com, which appeared to be working on a partnership with Twitter.

In the screenshot, which is no longer able to be viewed, certain tweets are tagged "Twitter Commerce" and, when expanded, show a green "Buy with Fancy" button.

The purchaser would then be able to enter their payment and shipping information on another screen, all without leaving the Twitter app or site....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ecommerce; economy; internet; twitter

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