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Amazon now lets you shop through Twitter

05
May
2014

Amazons betting that you will, and its launching a new service today to let you add items to your shopping cart straight from Twitter. After connecting your Twitter account to Amazon, youll then be able to reply to any tweet that includes an Amazon link using the hashtag #AmazonCart in the US or #AmazonBasket in the UK for it to be automatically added to your cart on Amazons website. As with any other item in your cart, you wont have to buy items added through the hashtag — theyll remain there until you either check out or remove them, so the integration with Twitter can serve as much as a way to bookmark products that you might like as much as its a way to easily buy them. Its unclear how closely involved with the integration Twitter itself is — Amazon may well just be making clever use of hashtags — especially since Twitter has been working to build out a shopping experience on its own.

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