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June 11, 2013 05:00 pm GMT
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Chirpify Goes Beyond PayPal To Bring Direct, In-Stream Payments To Facebook, Twitter And Instagram
Facebook and Twitter have become stellar venues for brands and small businesses alike to advertise their wares. However, while social-style gift-giving has seen some traction thanks to Facebook, social commerce has been slow to take flight. Chirpify launched in early 2012 to do something about this, offering an easy way for people to make purchases in-stream on Twitter. Late last year, the young startup expanded its scope to include another popular social network, the Facebook-owned Instagram, so that users could peruse items being sold on Instagram (tagged with "#instasale) and enter "buy" in the comments to facilitate an insta-transaction.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/VbS5ZEwCP-4/
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