AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart without leaving Twitter

Re:AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart w... by Touche on Monday May 05, 2014 @01:07PM (#7699678)

What's interesting to me is that this is not a partnership between Twitter and Amazon. Amazon is simply using the API to get the hashtag results.

The way Twitter would want this to happen is by using Twitter Cards with a button to add to the cart. Of course they would be able to tax the use that way. I wouldn't be surprised if Twitter makes a move to block this functionality.

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Re:AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart w... by boqeh on Monday May 05, 2014 @03:38PM (#7700661)

Honestly, this is great for Twitter. I can't see them blocking this. I can either advertise my product on Facebook which necessitates leaving the site in order to buy my product, or I can use Twitter Ads with #AmazonCart and see usage on a case-by-case basis all while staying within the confines of Twitter's app.

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Re:AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart w... by genesee on Monday May 05, 2014 @02:57PM (#7700397)

How could they block this? It's an incredibly general use case of their API.

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Re:AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart w... by Touche on Monday May 05, 2014 @03:27PM (#7700591)

Just block Amazon's servers.

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Re:AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart w... by deedubaya on Monday May 05, 2014 @03:42PM (#7700687)

Hahaha, yeah along with every service that runs on AWS? Yeah, don't think so.

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