I wonder if Amazon filed for a patent for this? Would there be prior art that anyone knows about if so? At their scale I am sure it wasn't an "easy" feature to add, but it is simple (and obvious). I see many e-commerce sites doing something similar if they could legally.
AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart without leaving Twitter
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#32What's interesting to me is that this is not a partnership between Twitter and Amazon. Amazon is simply using the API to get the hashtag results. The way Twitter would want this to happen is by using Twitter Cards with a button to add to the cart. Of course they would be able to tax the use that way. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter makes a move to block this functionality.
How could they block this? It's an incredibly general use case of their API.
Just block Amazon's servers.
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#33Add now. Buy Now. (using Digital Currency) That would be interesting to me.
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#34What's interesting to me is that this is not a partnership between Twitter and Amazon. Amazon is simply using the API to get the hashtag results. The way Twitter would want this to happen is by using Twitter Cards with a button to add to the cart. Of course they would be able to tax the use that way. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter makes a move to block this functionality.
Honestly, this is great for Twitter. I can't see them blocking this. I can either advertise my product on Facebook which necessitates leaving the site in order to buy my product, or I can use Twitter Ads with #AmazonCart and see usage on a case-by-case basis all while staying within the confines of Twitter's app.
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#36Oh wow, finally! The pain of remembering what I need to buy has truly been relieved. All that app switching, password typing. I can guarantee this innovation will save me tens--perhaps hundreds--of seconds. As an added bonus I'll also be able to share with my friends all the weird shit I'm buying on Amazon. Publicly.
Thanks Amazon, your innovative spirit truly knows no bounds.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's interesting. I generally add whatever I would like to buy later to my cart instead of wishlist. I never visit the wishlist and by adding to cart, it reminds everytime I checkout something else.
I'm a big list guy. I like to store things in different lists depending on my interests. I also do a lot of repeat buying so it's helpful to have a bunch of lists.
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#38Oh wow, finally! The pain of remembering what I need to buy has truly been relieved. All that app switching, password typing. I can guarantee this innovation will save me tens--perhaps hundreds--of seconds. As an added bonus I'll also be able to share with my friends all the weird shit I'm buying on Amazon. Publicly. Thanks Amazon, your innovative spirit truly knows no bounds.
Oh, I needed a double take to get the sarcasm :)
On a more serious note, very few people actually hit the buy button before spending a few minutes on the product detail pages to at least verify it's the stuff they want to buy. People usually spend more time to research the product, and various buying options to make sure they get a best deal.
This is probably an intern project that was somehow hyped up to get some PR for Twitter.