Here are our top five tweets from the week that was. Keep tweeting, and we may feature you next Friday.
@CreditScoreNet: Great joke, but you never know! MT @MasterCardNews12m Pay w ‘Stare for Fare’ from Google -> #AprilFools from @pymnts bit.ly/10oBlDV
We appreciate all the feedback we received from the April Fools Newsletter we published on Monday, and we appreciate the targets of some of our jokes being good sports as well. Here we see our piece on Google Glass’ new “NSC,” or “Near Sighted Communications,” technology, which lets consumers buy products by simply looking at them. Laugh all you want now, but there’s some real logic behind this tech. After all, what better way to combat showrooming than by eliminating choice!
@rroessler: Is same-day delivery becoming mainstream with #Ebay Now and #Google Shopping Express? Pymnts.com/briefing-room/… via @pymnts #ecommerce
Robert calls attention to this legitimate piece we ran on April 1 that highlights increasing competition in the same-day delivery space. Google struck first last Thursday, announcing their Goolge Shopping Express service would enter testing. But eBay wasted now time by revealing that its eBay Now service would expand to Chicago and Dallas. All of this, of course, ignores Amazon Prime, and it’s immensely popular two-day shipping option. In many ways, it looks like this battle is just getting started.
@paulg: Stripe processed more money in the last 24 hours than in their first 2 years.
Sometimes the simplest tweets (and Twitter handles!) are the best. Here we see Paul Graham, programmer and venture capitalist of some note, bringing attention to the rapid growth of payments processor Stripe. It’s a powerful message in that it shows just how fast a payments startup can grow in this environment, as well as highlights the prevalence of eCommerce.
@TineCornwell: @Impressive projection! > @pymnts: eBay Inc. Expects to Enable $300 Billion of Global Commerce in 2015 ow.ly/jCLT3
The “accurate yet understated” claim of the week goes to Christine, who highlights a number that caught all of our eyes as we scanned the news. Commerce powerhouse eBay is predicting that it will enable $300 billion of global commerce in 2015, which would be a pretty massive increase from the $175 billion it enabled in 2012. That being said, PayPal’s recent numbers should demonstrated that eBay is a company you can’t underestimate, and while predictions such as this are obviously meant to generate headlines there could be some truth behind this one as well.
@SethEisen: Now this is what I call forward thinking for a world beyond cash …bit.ly/10iyqNZ. Thanks, @pymnts for the April 1 humor!
Ok, one more April Fools reference. There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to make a choice: do you work a Transformers reference into your professional life, or do you take the easy way out?
I’ve written about MasterCard once or twice here on PYMNTS.com, so I appreciate them being good sports as I broke the embargo on their lucrative new deal with the Autobots, complete with full quotes from Optimus Prime. Because sometimes, you have to amuse yourself.
Have a good weekend, and happy tweeting!
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