Twitgift for Twitter, another amazing idea to keep you twittering
Twitgift for Twitter, another amazing idea to keep you twittering. We’ve looked at a number of services that make it easy to give gifts online via text message. Twitgift brings the same functionality to Twitter, but it has some features that make it kind of special.
What we like about Twitgift is that it offers more than just gift cards. The service is only shipping in the U.S. right now and its selection of items is limited, but you can send cookies, a necklace or an Android phone case to people, just using Twitter.
You don’t need to know the mailing address of your recipient — they’ll enter that in when they claim their gift. It’s a pretty nice idea that makes online gifting a little more personal.
We would like to see Twitgift expand its offerings. And while we appreciate the handmade touch, we do wonder about how well an operation like this can scale. That said, this is one of those services that makes us smile.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained extensive notability and popularity worldwide. It is described as the “SMS of the Internet,” in that the site provides the functionality via its API
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