Patch Poll: Twitter Shopping -- Good Idea or Bad?
If you could get an amazing bargain simply by tweeting a sales hashtag linked to a credit card account in order to make the purchase, would you do it?
American Express is joining forces with Twitter to let people make purchases simply by using a hashtag.
It's fairly simple: You link you Twitter account to your American Express account and when you see a tweet for a sale offer you'd like to take advantage off -- say, a $25 American Express card for $15 or 25 percent break on the cost of an Amazon Kindle Fire -- you tweet back the hashtag that corresponds with the deal.
When American Express receives your order, they'll send you an emal and you have 15 minutes to confirm the purchase. If you say yes, your card gets billed and the item is shipped to your address.
The one downside is that you can't keep your Twitter account private, so your purchase goes out publicly and is an automatic plug for the American Express and the company from whom you're making the purchase
(Read this CNN.com article for more details.)
So, in a world where 20 or 30 years ago you could never have conceived of getting cash from a machine, buying Christmas presents from your home office or paying bills via your computer, what do you think of this idea? If the deal was good enough, would it entice you to do it?
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