Bitcoin wallet iPayYou has launched a new service that allows users to make peer-to-peer payments over Twitter.
Dubbed Pay-by-Twitter, the new service will enable users to send money by simply entering the recipient's Twitter handle instead of an email or bitcoin address.
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Once the payment is sent, the recipient will receive a tweet letting the payee know that they have received a payment that will include a link to the iPayYou website, the company said.
The Seattle-based company, created by former Amazon executive Gene Kavner, already enables users to send bitcoin through email.
Kavner said: “Twitter is one of the most widely used social media networks worldwide and despite the speed of technological innovation in the 21st Century, no other full-service bitcoin wallet offered this feature until now. With the new Pay-by-Twitter feature, iPayYou continues to offer consumers with easy ways to use bitcoin as a payment method in everyday life, which has been our mission from the start.”
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