Amazon has joined forces with Twitter to let consumers tweet products they like into their shopping baskets, as technology companies search for ways to fuse social media and ecommerce.
The feature is aimed at turning Twitter into a new shopping window for Amazon, which has only dabbled with social media, partly because Jeff Bezos, its chief executive, does not want to share its customers with other companies, according to former employees.
Through the tie-up, consumers on Twitter who see a tweet with an Amazon product link will be able to drop it into their Amazon.com basket by replying with the hashtag #amazoncart in the US and #amazonbasket in the UK.