Selling stuff on Twitter

tuy.im

21 points·eberfreitas··9 comments

I hadn't really thought about using Twitter to sell anything, but now the the idea is in front of me I like it. I think you could take the intergration with Twitter fruther, but I'm not sure I have the best ideas on how to do that.

My only initial concern was that in reading your footer text on your PSP ad (You can contact me on Twitter or email me....) I found myself looking for your Twitter handle down there as well and was confused that I couldn't find it. It actually took me a few seconds to realize it was up top. Would be worth knowing if other people are experiencing the same confusion.

Yeah, I guess I need to put it there as well!

Interesting idea, but the periods and commas in the example price are in the wrong order. Is it going to mis-format something I try to sell as well? Edit: apparently not, it's just a text field in the listing.

It's not really misformatted. The roles of periods and commas are swapped in some countries. In fact, all of these countries in green use commas for the decimal separator rather than periods:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.png

Yeah, anyone can fill the price with anything really. I'm from Brazil and here we separate that way. I'll change it ;)

My blog post about it http://www.eberfdias.com/blog/tuy-im/358/

link to that example for-sale page from the homepage, or show some kind of example there. from just reading the text, it's not clear at all how it works or looks.

Done!

Small suggestion. Change #2 and #3 paragraph positions. It will be easier to read.

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