Would you buy something directly on Twitter?
0It looks like Twitter's trying again to wedge some commerce into their business model. We've seen this before (and participated a little bit) with their @earlybird account that basically went nowhere, but this seems like a more concerted effort to adapt their Twitter cards into having a full purchase & checkout flow.
Would you buy from a Twitter feed? Will this finally be where Twitter breaks into e-commerce, or is this just another earlybird?
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May be a price-point thing. If it's a basic HDMI cord, the barrier of understanding (how does it work? what warranty does it have?) is so low that it works. I can't imagine any but the wealthy being willing to spend more than... $50 via one-click.
Or maybe I'm just horribly skeptical, jaded and cheap...
Price is Right horn
If someone built up enough community trust and offered very good, very limited deals, I'd probably buy stuff.
I think I'd be more likely to purchase from my twitter feed than facebook. I already get bit.ly links for products and 140 character ads in my feed all the time. This would just be an extension of that. If twitter can keep hack companies and products out of it, it should do well.
Are you asking because Mediocre will be involved?
@Kevin, I'm always up for trying stuff, so if they offer it, I bet we'd try it in one experiment or another. But it's also interesting to just think if / how this will work at all for Twitter. I do think it's probably limited to lower priced items, or at least really well-known items from well-known stores (like a deal on an Xbox One from Newegg or something).
@dave, I don't see it working for Twitter. They don't do e-commerce, they're social media.
If they were serious about it, they could open up a Twitter branded site (shop.twitter.com), and use social media to advertise their own deals. They might be able to come up with some interesting promotions, somthing like retweet this and get 20% off.
@Kevin, I think Twitter would be more the mechanism for delivering the items for sale.
@Dave - now that you mention it, I don't doubt that Xbox could be pretty successful selling Arcade mini-games or add-ons using such a mechanism. It raises an interesting point of in-game/booster value where you absolutely know the value. For instance, I'd buy another year subscription to Netflix, a magazine, etc., with one-click on Twitter. Knowing fully the value I think is the barrier to my earlier point and building off of yours.