Tweet-a-beer

By March 21 2012, 10:58 am 2 Comments
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Buying someone a drink in person is nice, but buying someone a drink via Twitter is, well, unusual. (Thanks, Zoe.)

Online networking app Tweet-A-Beer hopes to change that and make paying for other Twitter users’ drinks more of a habit.

Here’s how it works (flip through the gallery below for a visual tour): Tweet-A-Beer uses Chirpify – an ecommerce platform that lets you buy, sell and donate money – to sync your Twitter account to your PayPal account. You can safely send beer money in $5 allotments:


“Here’s how it works (flip through the gallery below for a visual tour): Tweet-A-Beer uses Chirpify — an ecommerce platform that lets you buy, sell and donate money — to sync your Twitter account to your PayPal account. You can safely send beer money in $5 allotments.

“Oregon-based agencies Waggener Edstrom Worldwide and tenfour brewed the app for public consumption in six weeks, just in time for SXSW where networking is known to stem from quaffing alcoholic beverages.

“Users have already bought more than 500 beers to incite in-person meetups or wish SXSW attendees good luck. For example, I sent $5 to Mashable colleague Sarah Kessler, who will be at SXSW reporting on all things dealing with startups. I personalized my transaction with a message, which was tweeted to my followers after I hit, “Send Beer Money.” The app also allows you to add your current location and a meeting location to drink beers together, according to Mashable.

  • Daniel Foreman

    Having spent a lot of time over in China during the last couple of years – I think you hit the nail on the head, unfortunately.

    “all you can see are reasons to leave Britain, not visit it! Instead the film promotes the delights of the Far East and especially China”

  • ChrisJReed

    Thanks Daniel, the way of the world, every changing….

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