The price of your social network: an idea for online stores

The ser­vice http://www.paywithatweet.com/ lets you sell dig­i­tal goods for tweets. Before giving you a down­load link for some dig­i­tal prod­uct (a song, a book or soft­ware), it asks you to log in with Twitter or Facebook and posts a mes­sage there along the lines of “Hey! Check out this new something!”.

I think it could be used to buy phys­i­cal goods too. Bolted onto the cart of an ordi­nary online store, for example. At check­out, when the user sees the final amount to pay, he could use his social net­work like an ordi­nary dis­count coupon: tweet or post a mes­sage on Facebook, and the amount to pay auto­mat­i­cally drops by a cer­tain number of mon­e­tary units.

Commercializing Twitter and Facebook? Selling out your friends for pen­nies? Fuck yeah!!!