Want to Donate to a Political Candidate? Now There's a Tweet for That
Popular social media platform is enabling candidate fans to put their money where their thumbs are.
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Twitter Inc., which helped rewrite political discourse, is now venturing into the world of campaign finance, introducing a way for candidates to solicit donations through social media posts.
The company Tuesday said it had partnered with Square Inc., a mobile payment company, to give U.S. political candidates a way to collect donations through tweets. Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and Square, is running both companies after taking an interim CEO job at Twitter, making their cooperation on the donations tool convenient.