TwoTweet Goes Live

TwoTweet.com is now live...kicking off our launch with vinyl records from Coconut Records and the digital release of Hollyhood from Frank Nitt and DJ Quik.

We'd like to extend an extra special thanks to our very first customer - SLyleCoy (Twitter name). He rocked the web AND Twitter purchase methods and gave us a phenomenal review. Even posted a TwitPic...thank you!

What's twotweet + Alpha Launch

Our awesome friends at Young Baby Records, are allowing us to debut the brand new Coconut Records vinyl for Nighttiming and Davy this week. It'll be the first and only place to buy it! After that Coconut Records will be running a few special merch deals!

What's twotweet? It's a super-simple shopping tool plugged into Twitter. A band - in this case Coconut Records, adds an item for sale and it immediately sends out a Tweet. As a shopper, you can purchase via the web link, or if you are already registered, by simply re-tweeting or replying to the message and including the product url again.

Why buy via Twitter? A few reasons come to mind:
1) It's a super-limited special item and you want to skip the whole checkout process
2) You're stuck at work, know you want it but the boss is hanging over your shoulder
3) You're on the go and your mobile device isn't so hot with the whole web page thing

We are so excited to launch this week with Coconut Records. We hope to add a lot more amazing bands and offers on merch, music and tickets very soon.

Beta Launch Next Week

twotweet.com is planning our beta launch next week. We've partnered with a few clients of DashGo.com and you may start to see some music and merch for sale next week via TwoTweet on Twitter. We'll announce our final list of launch partners early next week.

It's been an exciting development cycle and we've got most of the kinks worked out. It's still very much a platform in progress and a whole host of upgrade features including coupons, discounting, fulfillment and API integrations are on the roadmap for the remainder of 2009.

But first we need your feedback on the core features. So stay tuned and hit @twotweet on Twitter for more.

P.S. - check out this timely New York Times article on the value of small businesses on Twitter. This is the homerun twotweet wants to help you hit. http://bit.ly/8zOOg

Artist Overview Deck

Here's the twotweet artist overview deck for those interested in learning more.

twotweet Beta & Design

I'm getting excited. twotweet is in beta and it's actually working. So much time is spent thinking in 140 characters that I woke up yesterday morning realizing I needed a serious design polish on the homepage to properly communicate the product. So a few hours of wireframing and UI discussions later, I think we found a winner.

Now it's back to Tweets and help docs and Paypal integration. Long weekend ahead before some serious demos for real people next week.

TwoTweet at NARM

Hypebot randomly picked up our brief appearances at NARM's convention, so I figured we should update the placeholder site / blog.

TwoTweet is a super-simple shopping cart integrated into Twitter. We are a division of DashGo so our roots are deep in digital music. We're hoping to find 10-15 artists and labels that would like to launch with us.

Here's what makes TwoTweet super-cool:

• You can sell ANYTHING: MP3s, Videos, Tickets, Merchandise, Collectibles, Pacifiers, cars. (no drugs, guns or porn; not judging, just not selling)
• Plugs directly into Twitter: Publish a product and TwoTweet instantly sends it to your Followers. Plug and play direct marketing
• FAST Checkout: Once you sell a product to someone, they can buy anything else you offer in the future via a Tweet. One tweet to sell; one tweet to buy - that's the TwoTweet method.
• Viral: Buyers can opt to Retweet at checkout, alerting all of their Followers to your undoubtedly amazing and life-changing product!
• Simple: TwoTweet is inexpensive (comparable fees to eBay / Amazon) and fast to setup.

ETA for launch is July 1. We'll be at NARM again tomorrow (Wednesday June 10th). Email benp(at)dashgo.com to setup a meeting if you'd like to learn more. Or just follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/twotweet

TwoTweet is Coming

TwoTweet is a simplified storefront and shopping cart checkout that interfaces with Twitter. The TwoTweet development team is busy working on creating a super-simple set of tools to allow vendors and shoppers to connect and shop via Twitter.

More updates as we build. We'll try to keep this blog up to date on successes, roadblocks, unexpected side trips and other start-up related adventures. Feel free to contact us with any suggestions, comments, criticisms or questions.

Thanks,

Ben P