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Send Payments Via Twitter: Twitpay

By Andrew Hyde
November 21, 2008
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Send Payments Via Twitter: TwitpayTwitpay, which launched yesterday, is a way to send money with Twitter.

It turns twitter into a command line to make payment promises.  For instance, to send this fine blog some money I did this:

@nextweblog twitpay $10 for being a kick ass blog

Twitpay will then index my tweet in a Twitpay account.  They track all the money that has been sent to and from this account with the ability to cash out or donate the money to a TwitPay charity.  You can cancel a payment up to 30 minutes after you tweet it out, by sending a direct message to their account.  Twitpay charges $.05 for sending amounts over $1 and users will occur the usual PayPal fees.  Their FAQ helps quite a bit.

What is unique about Twitpay is that it doesn’t require the user to signup, if you have a twitter account, you are ready to go.

It was created at Startup Weekend Atlanta.


  • We at Tipit.to ( http://tipit.to ) provide a free service (just the Paypal charge, and we're switching to a new payment provider) to enable tipping and we already implement deep Twitter integration for both sending and receiving money using Twitter.

    We have been busy for over a year providing a tipping site to the internet and we are currently being used by several large sites (and many many more small ones) for their voluntary contributions.
  • Here's our FAQ entry about it: https://tipit.to/faq#twitter
  • are you sure about twitpay allowing you to "cash out"...I don't think you can get money out of it
  • Andrew Hyde
    From what I understand you can can cash out after you have $10.
  • unless it changed since yesterday, twitpay only allows u to send money to charity, or another twitpay user, there was no cashing out
  • Andrew Hyde
    This is in the FAQ, which leads me to believe their is some way to get your money out.

    "Since Sally has the $10 minimum required to cash out, she could spend her Twitpay balance.

    Twitpay charges 3% + $0.30 in a cash out fee to recover charges from PayPal™ when you fund your account.

    If Sally decides to spend her balance she will have $11.34 to use toward an Amazon™ gift card or a Twitpay charity. Sally could instead use her entire $12 to give to others via Twitpay."
  • it tells you right there, "Amazon gift card, twitpay charity, or send to other twitpay user"...no cash out
  • So then bettetr just join us at Tipit.to. We are happy to have you cash out starting at €20 or equivalent.
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