Topic: PikaPay Bitcoin API on Github - An API to Send Bitcoins to Anyone on Twitter (Read 1596 times)

Announcement: PikaPay Bitcoin API - An API to Send Bitcoins to Anyone on Twitter

PikaPay, the service that lets you send and receive bitcoins by Twitter, now extends its closed beta to its Bitcoin API. This new service is an API based on Bitcoin universal digital currency and transaction platform. The API provides an easy-to-use toolkit for building Bitcoin games and applications that can harness the power of Twitter.

PikaPay's Bitcoin API enables users to run the same tasks they can already perform with the PikaPay mobile web application, but now from within their own applications.
With this API you can design your own services to send and request payments to anyone via Twitter.

Each PikaPay transaction -- both send and request -- has the optional ability to include a Tweet with every transaction.

With 190 million Twitter site visitors every month and 2.1 billion Twitter search engine queries per day, this new functionality represents a big potential expansion of the Bitcoin ecosystem to an even wider audience.

Developers can now easily create custom applications in any programming language with the ability to conduct Bitcoin transactions with the more than 500 million active registered users on Twitter.

In line with our mission to bring the benefits of Bitcoin to everyone, PikaPay aims to extend the global currency's reach to the 10th biggest web site and second largest social network on the Internet.

Technical details of the API are open for public comment on Github at https://github.com/pikapay/pikapay-api

API documentation is here: https://github.com/pikapay/pikapay-api/wiki

API Beta

While in beta the API will be limited to an initial group of developers, businesses and non-profit organizations. After the test period we plan to expand the API to more developers and to invite other organizations to participate.

To request an invitation to the API beta, Tweet "@PikaPay interested in PikaPay Bitcoin API."

By following @PikaPay on Twitter you can also keep an eye out for more details as they emerge.

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Community members who use Twitter or are interested in being a Beta tester can help us bring Bitcoin to everyone by taking a test drive.

To participate in our Beta, just surf to https://Test.PikaPay.com PikaPay is already safe for testing with small amounts of Bitcoin.

We're hard at work to make PikaPay into something unique, and any suggestions, questions and critique are very important to us.

We love to get feedback at [email protected].

Thanks in advance for any comments you can give.  And thanks to everyone who can help us test this service.