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Stoked for this. Now I can support my favorite artists, etc. for $1/month (or more).
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180
The tip structure needs work. Hoping to revisit after landing international payouts and visual revamp.
1. Twitter account creation date 2. Number of followers/following 3. Location information (if available) 4. # of tweets
Esp. (1) and (2) would be very useful. When I last analyzed the github accounts, almost all fraudsters had relatively recent github accounts and (unsurprisingly) zero/almost zero followers for their repos. As with most things related to fraud, these do not guarantee fraud protection, but serve as very strong signals.
Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand? If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payments category..?
Seems like Gittip is moving more and more in the direction of flattr(.com)
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/316
However, the primary distinctive is that Gittip is funded on itself, whereas Flattr is for-profit and takes a hefty cut. I don't see that gap closing anytime soon.
Chad (disclaimer: I work for Balanced https://www.balancedpayments.com/ and we handle the payment processing for gittip. I mainly focus on fraud). It's wonderful you are doing this. It enable forms of donation other than via github. Not sure, what information you collect via twitter login, but I would watch out for: 1. Twitter account creation date 2. Number of followers/following 3. Location information (if availabl…