Twitter Drops Huge Hint of E-Commerce Plans | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The company is testing a dormant menu option that appears to hint that commerce services will be coming soon.


... This is the latest in a stream of hints that Twitter is preparing a foray into commerce. Back in June,Re/Code spotted a “buy now” button that began appearing in tweets with links to retail siteFancy. The same publication previously got its hands on documents that appeared to show commerce plans, while Twitter has been rumored to be working on a deal with payments provider Stripe for some time.


At this point it isn’t entirely clear what Twitter has planned, but the “payment and shipping” option – which appears to be where users would manage their payment methods and enter their delivery address – clearly ties in with other clues....