Comments on: Tipit Lets You Transfer Money Over Twitter. Sort of.

By: Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API | Fresh Random News

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:41:25 +0000

[...] for micro-payments through Twitter than its competitor Tipit, which merely uses Twitter as a sort of relay between PayPayl account holders and the person or company on the receiving [...]

By: Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API

Micro-Blogging Meets Micro-Payments, Courtesy Of Tipjoy’s API — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:03:59 +0000

[...] for micro-payments through Twitter than its competitor Tipit, which merely uses Twitter as a sort of relay between PayPayl account holders and the person or company on the receiving [...]

By: Remit2india Service

Remit2india Service — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:11:40 +0000

Remit2India, Part of the Times of India group, offers a speedy way to sending money to India.

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» Stimmt so. « Trash-Log Blog Archive — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:57:44 +0000

[...] Dienst zum digitalen Trinkgeldgeben. Über einen Button, über die TipIt-Website oder auch z.B. über Twitter kann der Besucher dem Seitenbesitzer so etwas Geld zukommen lassen, dass dann über Paypal gezahlt [...]

By: 1stGirl.com

1stGirl.com — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:05:04 +0000

A great way to get some traffic. Tip a few cents and your url will be listed on TipIt. It will stay longer if not many tipping.

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NGT News: Tipit, Baghdad Calling, Santa’s SNS and Mobile Groceries — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:30:26 +0000

[...] Tipit Lets You Transfer Money Over Twitter. Sort of. [Tech Crunch] More an IOU than a money transfer, Tipit sends paypal.com Twitter reminders to your buds who owe you for last weekend. [...]

By: The Profit Equation of Twitter-style Messages « Assetbar: drinks and recipes

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:25:44 +0000

[...] other words, don’t just send a message that you’d like some money (i.e. tipit), but put access controls on the messages so that they are only available to paying [...]

By: Crazyglues

Crazyglues — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:33:20 +0000

@ Alper

ok sounds cool then…

I’ll check it out then, didn’t know you had a wallet system in place, because when I looked at it, it was saying something about they will send a Paypal for you to pay later… but if it has a wallet ok, then that’s cool, I’ll look at it again.

By: jim ayson

jim ayson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:48:26 +0000

Mobile-based payments aren’t new. We’ve had this in the Philippines since 2001 through SMART Money.

See http://smart.co...neytransfer.htm

By: scoreboard

scoreboard — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:09:08 +0000

Not to be confused with the real Tippit, http://www.tippit.com

By: Nate Westheimer

Nate Westheimer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:33:37 +0000

“He’s probably wrong about the need for such an archaic command system…”

Not sure what you mean here. TipIt adds more syntax. You’re going to have syntax no matter.

What I proposed (p innonate $5) is the simplest you can get.

By: interesting

interesting — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:33:21 +0000

There is a facebook application that does this, but much smoother.

http://fliff.tv

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:24:09 +0000

Google has a patent in this area.

http://telephon...payment_090407/

By: iamshimone

iamshimone — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:15:03 +0000

@Everett The article clearly states: “Unfortunately, sending a Tipit message doesn’t actually transfer any funds. Instead, it sends you an email message telling you to pony up your money through PayPal, which is then directed towards the intended recipient.”

So no, TipiT is not giving a PayPal a run for its money… maybe its feature-set but this is already possible via Skype and SMS.

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:46:43 +0000

Tipit Lets You Transfer Money Over Twitter. Sort of….

Tipit, a startup that lets users tip website owners for their content, has launched integration with Twitter. Unfortunately, sending a Tipit message doesn’t actually transfer any funds. Instead, it sends you an email message telling you to pony up yo…

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:47:21 +0000

So they must 1099 the websites at the end of the year? But I guess if they operate out of the country then I guess not? How can I even trust these guys to give the money to the people I’m tipping.

“Hey did you get my $2 tip” … “uhh no, I haven’t gotten any of those tips”

Design looks elementary and apparently the biggest tipper is the owner of the company. Sounds like a great business plan, give away your money not because you like the content but to build your business.

By: _dooder

_dooder — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:36:48 +0000

I don’t understand twitter, which explains why I have no idea why you would want to use this.

By: The Social Web mobile edition

The Social Web mobile edition — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:08:20 +0000

[...] as TechCrunch notes, sending a TipiT tweet doesn’t actually transfer any funds: “Instead, it sends you an email [...]

By: Alper

Alper — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:21:37 +0000

Hey guys thanks for the comments. Keep them coming, we like to hear what you think.

@Crazyglues: This is in fact already possible. You can put $5 in your wallet and use our bookmarklet to tip any site you like. Your tips will be paid off directly with the money in your wallet. Simple enough?

By: billy

billy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:53:01 +0000

TC must be worth $1 billion theoretical dollars….why the heck should i tip websites? aren’t they all getting sick valuations even though there is no plan to generate revenue.

phase1 – build site
phase2 – ?
phase3 – profit

By: Crazyglues

Crazyglues — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:25:55 +0000

I don’t know what happened I click on the link but I somehow got this site – http://skitch.com/ -but that app is pretty cool…

I was watching the video on the site… pretty cool app… Anyway I found my way back to TipIt and the problem with this, or sites like this… is I need my own account… so I can put money in that account – let’s say $5 dollars…

Then when I’m surfing the net and I land on TechCrunch for Example, I will see a green button in the top right that I can click on to give a donation to the site.

It will ask me how much do you want to donate… $1.. $5 bucks ..whatever I click on it and then – I see donation made / Remaining balance for my account… and that’s it I’m done.

When it becomes that nice and simple, that’s when I’ll start giving money to sites.

By: Kristoffer Lawson

Kristoffer Lawson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:07:11 +0000

OK, this is an interesting new aspect of Tipit and there are a few possibilities with this. It’ll be intriguing to witness how this feature develops.

By: Ruben Zevallos Jr.

Ruben Zevallos Jr. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:46:28 +0000

It’s very interesting idea to use Twitter for such things… I’m still trying to use it, but as I can see, I’m far way from this new times…

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links for 2008-07-02 - Fast.Fwd.Innov@tion — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:31:17 +0000

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By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:25:23 +0000

When can I get my bank balance over twitter? And maybe some drug prescriptions. And insurance payouts. Can I pay my mortgage over twitter yet? Can I submit my taxes via twitter? Most likely they’ll send you your refund over twitter also.

This is dumb. Not only are they not transferring money, but they send you a message to tell you send the money via a third-party? So this is no different than just sending someone an email directly telling them to pick up money at paypal — oh wait, paypal already does that.

It’s the new middle man! I have a new platform that emails you to tell you to twitter to send someone money that emails you to remind you to use paypal. I also have a facebook app front end to *that*! And a desktop widget that interfaces with the facebook app. Next month, you’ll be able to access the desktop widget via SMS, just as soon as our outsourced programmers finish working on it.

Damn, it’s good to be a pimp. The johns can twitter money to my hoes, and I can collect from the hoes via twitter without even leaving my couch. Gas is expensive these days, and the pink caddy ain’t a sippin’ ride.

I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for this twitter today.