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Bring non-profit fundraising to TwitterDecember 19 2008
We launched an exciting new feature on Tipjoy yesterday. We already made it easy for Tipjoy users to pay via twitter.

We just came out with a new widget that let's new users signup and tweet a payment.

This has been an effort with @wellwishes for a very good cause. Laura Fitton is trying to get her 12,500 followers to donate $2 to help bring clean water to people in need. Tipjoy and Betaworks will match up to $10K.

You can help by going to her blog post or using the widget below. If you already have a Tipjoy account without a Twitter account hooked in, you should login first.

Just put in your twitter credentials, confirm an amount, and then follow through via PayPal. This will tweet a message that your followers can see to join the effort. This kind of viral microdonation engine is very exciting.

You can also help by posting the widget to your own blog. Here is the code for it:

<script language="javascript" src="http://tipjoy.com/twitterPaymentWidget/?twitterUsername=wellwishes&message=Can%20we%20get%2012%2C500%20people%20to%20chip%20in%20%242%20each%20to%20save%20lives&extraTweet=for%20CharityWater%20to%20save%20lives.%20What%20can%202%20do%20http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F13xKO%20You%20can%20tweet%20donate%20via%20%40tipjoy%20too"><












Tip via TwitterDecember 4 2008
Tipjoy is happy to announce even tighter integration with Twitter.

You can now initiate payments via twitter. For example, tweeting "p @ev $1 because twitter is fun" would send $1 from your Tipjoy account to @ev.

'p' is like 'd' but for payment, not direct messages - get it?

This is an opt-in feature. To try it out, add your twitter username and password in the tipjoy settings page and click the checkbox to opt-in:
http://tipjoy.com/settings

Then start tweeting.

We'll count anything that has an @username, dollar amount, and a
payment keyword in the first three words in any order. So "p @ev $1"
and "@ev pay $1" both work.

The payment keywords are 'tipjoy', 'tip', 'pay', 'give', 'rtip', and
'p'. Case doesn't matter, so 'give', 'GIVE', and 'giVE' all work.

What is 'rtip'? It's a retweet and a tip. If you really like a tweet,
retweet it and send the author some love.

For example, @badbanana just tweeted
"My will to live is somewhere in that coffee pot."

Such hilarity certainly deserves a dollar in my book, so I just tweeted
"rtip $1 @badbanana My will to live is somewhere in that coffee pot."
























custom tipjoy button code releasedNovember 14 2008
We've got a new tipjoy widget, and it's yours for the customizing.

With this tipjoy widget you can:
- completely customize the look and feel via CSS
- display who's tipped most recently, and who's the most generous
- allow givers to leave short messages

Get it here

To see some examples, check out our previous post.

PS - to all you CSS hecklers out there, be forewarned so your head doesn't explode: to ensure compatibility across all sorts of people's sites, no matter what crazy things they do to Ps and DIVs and other tags...everything in this tipjoy widget is wrapped in a SPAN. But I don't want to blame my users - they can do whatever they want to their CSS. I'm blaming IE for not supporting custom tags which would have been a much more elegant solution.
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Just want a basic button? Or a goal thermometer? Check out all your options here.













tipjoy for your tumblelogNovember 13 2008
Tipjoy is working in a beta partnership with tumblr to help their users earn money from their tumblelogs.

We've got a new custom button on a few tumbelogs. The UI is completely customizable via CSS. The widget shows recent and most generous tippers.

Here are a few great examples:
matthewbuchanan.name
blog.davidchartier.com
flyingpizzakitty.com
147xxxx.tumblr.com

We'll be making this custom code available to anyone for any site very soon. In the meantime if you'd like an advance copy of the code, email us at: founders[at]tipjoy.com









Tipjoy starts giving out gold starsOctober 24 2008
We all enjoyed receiving those precious gold stars for good work in
grade school.

We at Tipjoy liked them so much that we started handing them out. If
you've ever followed through and paid your tips, you're a "verified" tipjoy user. You'll find a gold star next to your username when it appears on Tipjoy.

As an example, you can see quite a few verified tipjoy users at our popular tips page.

Now's your chance to get a head start on the forthcoming tipjoy leaderboard. Want a gold star? Sure you do! Visit tipjoy and pay your bill today.