Send Tips or Donations With TipJoy

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I read in Popular Science an article about how you can get people to donate to your charities, or if you want to make online contributions to charities you can leverage TipJoy, I decided to sign up and see what the service was all about. The service works with paypal to allow you to send payments to people as “tips”. You can pay people’s twitter accounts and tweet them the payment, or pay them to their email.

In leveraging the service for a website it works very similar to PayPal’s “Donate” functionality in my mind, I am surprised that PayPal doesn’t yet have a platform yet for sending and receiving payments on twitter, as other companies have already made headway into this space.

What I do like is the tipjoy buttons, and that you can set really tiny requested amounts, as it may encourage people to leave just a little bit. To test this I will be installing some TipJoy buttons at the end of some of my poems to see if this encourages people to donate 25 cents to my poetry game.

I will follow up to see if anyone actually notices the tipjoy button and uses it once its implemented, I will offer it as a passive thing on my blog, but I don’t panhandle. I don’t think it appropriate to send out tweet’s requesting tips/donations unless you are raising money for a charity or a cause.

-Dragon Blogger

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Written by Justin Germino (1518 Articles Published)

Working in the IT Industry for over 10 years and specializing in web based technologies. Dragon Blogger has unique insights and opinions to how the internet and web technology works. An Avid movie fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.

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