PayPal lance une application Facebook pour envoyer de l’argent. Selon PayPal, 80% des utilisateurs actifs de son service sont inscrits sur Facebook.
C’est donc très logiquement que PayPal vient de sortir une application qui permet aux membres du réseau social de transférer de l’argent entre eux. Baptisée Send Money (version bêta), elle offre la possibilité d’envoyer de l’argent à un ami Facebook soit directement ou en joignant une carte électronique contenant un message, une photo ou une vidéo. La carte s’affiche sur le Mur Facebook de la personne. Il faut pour cela que le destinataire possède un compte PayPal. Le système fonctionne dans 65 pays « Dans un monde de plus en plus orienté vers les médias sociaux, nous offrons à nos clients la souplesse d’envoyer leur argent à qui ils veulent, quand ils le veulent et pour n’importe quelle occasion », explique PayPal dans son communiqué. Les transferts sont gratuits s’ils sont effectués aux États-Unis mais des frais sont appliqués pour les virements internationaux.
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Twitter can be used to network, make friends or keep up with Britney Spears. And soon it will become a way to transfer money over the Web. Twitpay is a start-up that aims to allow people to send small payments through Twitter. To do this they include the recipients’ username in their message. For example, posting the update “@johnsmith twitpay $10 for lunch” would deliver the cash to that Twitterer’s Twitpay account. In its simplest form, the service is a quick way to settle a lunch tab or pick up a round of drinks on a friend’s birthday. Along with many of the third-party applications that make use of Twitter’s platform, Twitpay has no official ties to Twitter, which allows people to post messages up to 140 characters in length. The service is still in a trial phase, but Mr. Twitpay Aims To Transform Twitter Into E Commerce Platform - Companies & Execs.
An investor group led by payments industry veteran Ashish Bahl hopes to transform social-media phenomenon Twitter into an online payment system.
The investors have acquired Atlanta-based social payments startup Twitpay and focused it on helping charities raise dollars—via Twitter. (Click here to read Twitpay co-founder Mike Ivey talk about his decision to sell and change the company's strategy.) Twitpay is part of an ecosystem of services and applications that is transforming Twitter from a social-media site into a communications—and now an e-commerce—platform. Twitter is estimated to have about 100 million users. Several nonprofits, including United Way and the Arthritis Foundation, are interested in leveraging social-media services such as Twitpay to help raise money in an increasingly digital world. Twitpay is a speedy and cost-effective way for nonprofits to raise money globally, co-founder Michael Ivey said.