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AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart without leaving Twitter

#1

Post by applecore » Mon, May 05, 2014, 2:29 PM UTC

AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart without leaving Twitter
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#2

Post by xgarland » Mon, May 05, 2014, 4:09 PM UTC

Very interesting merger of social and e-commerce here. I'd expect other players in the space to follow suit, or at least discover new ways to engage their clientele via social channels.

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#3

Post by batmansbelt » Mon, May 05, 2014, 4:20 PM UTC

What is the benefit here to the tweeter? I guess you could post an affiliate link and get paid for it. Otherwise you're just advertising for amazon for free, which hardly needs doing.

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#4

Post by _cbb1 » Mon, May 05, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

I would prefer a wishlist feature instead of a the shopping cart so i can purchase the item later

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#5

Post by astrowilliam » Mon, May 05, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

batmansbelt wrote: post #3

What is the benefit here to the tweeter? I guess you could post an affiliate link and get paid for it. Otherwise you're just advertising for amazon for free, which hardly needs doing.

A lot of people tweet random amazon links on my feed, not affiliates, just normal people that buy stuff on amazon. I could see it coming in handy for them.

I personally don't see any need for this in my life right now, though I do buy a lot on Amazon.

For marketers, this could be a huge deal.

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Post by _cbb1 » Mon, May 05, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

batmansbelt wrote: post #3

What is the benefit here to the tweeter? I guess you could post an affiliate link and get paid for it. Otherwise you're just advertising for amazon for free, which hardly needs doing.

Maybe when you retweet someone else's tweet?

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#7

Post by astrowilliam » Mon, May 05, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

_cbb1 wrote: post #4

I would prefer a wishlist feature instead of a the shopping cart so i can purchase the item later

I would as well. I might not be in the mood to buy the product right now, but would like to be reminded about it later.

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#8

Post by droob » Mon, May 05, 2014, 4:27 PM UTC

"Garbage up your interaction with real humans to make talking to our robot a little easier."

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#9

Post by readme » Mon, May 05, 2014, 4:35 PM UTC

Finally, the intersection of materialism and superficiality has manifested itself as a mashup of twitter and amazon. Now, not only can you buy the things you want, you can brag about it simultaneously with minimal extra effort.

This is of course, assuming no one is going to tweet about things they actually need like: "#AmazonCart http://amazon...toiletpaper" and so on, but someone could surprise me.

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#10

Post by antsar » Mon, May 05, 2014, 4:37 PM UTC

Could someone have already had their Amazon account linked to their Twitter (for some existing feature)? If so, I'm anxiously awaiting "I just retweeted something and Amazon shipped me this crap I didn't want with my next order".