[jcromartie]

Why would you rely on a service so capricious, transient and (most troublesome) public as Twitter to handle financial transactions? My experience with the Twitter API is that it's unpredictable and statuses and users can just flit in and out of existence from one moment to the next. That's not something I want to depend on to handle money.

[there]

especially when it would only take a small amount of work for paypal to add twitter integration to initiate a payment via twitter instead of an email.

i just looked at their site and saw that their entire payment infrastructure is based on paypal anyway. i don't understand why anyone would fund a company like this that is so heavily reliant on other companies' technology.

[ivey]

Founder of Twitpay here...our RT2Give service, which we're launching as part of this transition, will be clearing the payments directly, not with PayPal. Our personal payments service (twitpay.me) will continue to use PayPal.