Barclays is set to become the first British bank to allow people to pay eachother and small businesses using their Twitter handle. The service will be available through Barclays’ Pingit service, and goes live on iOS devices and Android phones on Tuesday, 10 March.
To sign up, users can link their Twitter handle to their Pingit profile under the app settings. Payments to friends, family and small businesses can then completed in three clicks. Darren Foulds, director of Pingit and Barclays mobile banking, says: “We are always on the lookout for new and exciting ways to make people’s lives easier, and customer feedback plays a big part in how we chose to further develop our apps. Adding the ability to pay people or a small business using just a Twitter handle brings together a social and digital experience to create a new step forward for mobile payments in the UK.”
Launched in 2012, Pingit has now received 3.7 million downloads and over £1 billion has been sent using the app.
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