I remember how cool I thought it was when I heard that you can send and receive money via email. That was the first I heard of PayPal. The first payment I sent was a rent payment…since I have sent payments for everything from lending money to paying writers for articles.
Now there’s a new service to send/receive digital payments and even sell digital goods offering auto-delivery. It uses Twitter to send payments and Amazon Payments to handle the cash. Twitpay ties it altogether and handles the delivery of your digital good if you are selling something. It’s an interesting combo of services… sort if like how Payloadz and PayPal enable you to sell goods online and offer auto-delivery.
TwitPay has a few payment services available. There’s the personal service for sending quick payments, RT2Buy for selling digital stuff, RT2Get for promos and RT2Give for fund raising.
At first glance though, I think I will be sticking with Payloadz for awhile longer. Twitpay keeps 15% and gives you your money on a monthly basis. With Payloadz you get your money immediately and they keep nothing unless you sell over a certain amount.
What do you think? Have you tried either service?
June 5, 2009 at 6:22 am
Hi,
I never knew you could do that. The 15% is a bit high if you ask me, but it’s still interesting to see the developments around Twitter :)