Say you have a group of individuals who all want to tweet from one account — right now, that’s a pain. You have to give everyone the password to the one account and have them log out of their own account and into this new one to use it. And even then, how do you know who is sending what tweet? You’d have to manually insert your own Twitter name at the end of your post or something along those lines. Now there’s a much easier way, and it comes thanks to a demo app.
Tata-tweet allows you to feed multiple Twitter accounts into one feed. When you do this, it will auto-append the name of the person tweeting to the end of the message. That means no more logging out from your account to send from the group account — and no more having to copy and paste the tweet if you also want to send it from your own. You can see this in action on the Y Combinator’s founders group account.
But there’s a slight catch: Using this app will cost you $0.99 a month. Yes, it’s a premium Twitter app. While those are a dime a dozen on platforms like the iPhone, they’re not so common on the web. And a monthly payment one is almost unheard of. But Tata-tweet is able to do it thanks to Tipjoy’s Twitter Payments API. This service extends Tipjoy’s social micropayment structure to the red-hot Twitter platform. And Tipjoy created this app to show exactly how it will work.
Pipping your accounts into Tata-tweet is easy, but you will have to have a group account set up that all of these tweets will be sent from. Once you have that, you click on the sign-up button and your TipJoy account is billed. It doesn’t require a credit card because TipJoy assumes that you’re good for the money. A word of caution: TipJoy will tweet out that you owe $5.94 (you have to sign up for 6 months at a time) for creating the new group account.
Tata-tweet is entirely open source, and you can grab the code at github. Tipjoy is running a contest through June 1 for the best apps created using this new Twitter Payments API — and according to TipJoy co-founder Ivan Kirigin, there are already plenty of good ones since Twitter is featuring it in the gadget box on the main Twitter homepage.
Kirigin bets that a lot of premium Twitter services will start popping up soon to make money on the popular platform. Yes, that will probably happen before Twitter actually makes any money.
Did you guys see http://www.twibeo.com launched today. Reallt cool site that lets you say what you are doing using text, photos and videos.
http://www.twibeo.com
God, your spam is getting ridiculous. No one is going to use your stupid site because you posted a blog comment.
I came across twibeo last week, and I’ve been wondering how long before http://hootsuite.com sends over their lawyers for stealing their site’s graphical content and LOGO/Mascot!!!!!!
niiiice!
We also built in a referral system into Tatatweet. MG would get 20% of everything from users who sign up here: http://tatatwee...om/r/parislemon
That means you only need to share Tatatweet with a few friends before it’s free to use.
That kind of incentive is pretty cool. Payouts are also through Tipjoy from http://tipjoy.c...m/TatatweetLove
Oh nice. Sign up people.
Sorry, that payout account is on twitter, not Tipjoy. http://twitter....m/TatatweetLove
Hey MG did you cover Twitters SMS spam problem?
twitter sucks mg siegler is that the only company you report about because the last 10 of 10 of your reports are about twitter. Twitter is a useless company.
actually 3 of the last 10 of my stories are about Twitter, but keep the tally goin.
no pretty sure MG likes to fondle twitter he will never stop writing about them because he along with the rest of TC is invested in them.
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1. MG – what is your real name?
2. Is this why TC hired you – to post Twitter stories? This is fine, but having a “Twitter Reporter” on the resume is pretty weak, don’t you think?
1. Yes.
2. No.
2. no they didn’t hire you to cover twitter… Or no you don’t think having “twitter reporter” on your resume is pretty weak?
Ok, seriously? The folks complaining about Twitter need to beat it. You don’t get it, the service allows folks to build or operate a business on top of it. It fits in well with what the folks at TC are trying to cover.
Don’t like it? Don’t read it.
That said, I love this, we might finally see some action here when it comes to companies designing apps based around Twitter to pull in income and provide better services.
i think the twitter-haters complaining about all the twitter stories on TechCrunch should suggest more pertinent stories they think should be covered. Everyone’s a critic. Put up or shut up.
MG i dont’ like you or 99% of what you post, I hate your FAN BOY posts about twitter, but for ONCE you have a post, that included twitter that I liked… I think I need to hang myself now, liking what you just posted is ohhh soooo bitter sweet…
Tipjoy has been an utter failure so far and this app won’t change that… unfortunately.
I’ve been following TechCrunch for a while now. And as already talked about by yourself, I strongly feel that you are talking about Twitter way too much. Agreed it’s an awesome service, but you should live up to your name as “Tech Crunch”. How about shifting focus a LITTLE from Twitter and more towards emerging technologies around the world?
TC stands for TwitterCrunch.
Personally, I think that writers are just too lazy to write about regular stuff so they just pick a trivial crap like this that’s connected with Twitter and write about that.
I can’t stand twitter and view it as a gigantic waste of time.
let’s just let things play out and see where it goes. if, in 12 months, techcrunch is dead then you can all say that you were write about TC going down hill, it’s still around, then you can publicly apologize.
where were you last ear, when all TC covered was Facebook?
I don’t have a real iPhone but I wanted to help test the app one of the online iPhone, but I can’t figure out where to put the code at http://interactiveiphone.com I tried going to the App Store but then it wouldn’t let me do anything else. Can someone help me?
you could start by going to the site in question and asking for support….
If you can’t figure that out, I am sure your APP is going to be a real treat.
If TipJoy succeeds it is great as there will be a micro payment system in the world that works.
The API could be key to their success.
If TipJoy fails then someone will pick up the idea and improve it.
does anyone have data on what percentage of tips are actually paid out on tipjoy?
I was curious how much money has been pledged in the system, and how much has actually flowed through.
This app is actually a bit of a departure from the pledge then pay model in Tipjoy.
Tatatweet mandates payment before making your account live. That’s the power of Tipjoy’s API: you don’t have to rely on payment rates.
Technically, this is as easy as asking tipjoy if a transaction has been paid or not, using this API endpoint:
http://tipjoy.c...ransaction_show
hey twitter is a waste of time