Twitter India associates with Razorpay to enable Payments And Donations

CIOReviewIndia Team | Thursday, 27 May 2021, 06:20 IST

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Twitter India associates with Razorpay to enable Payments And DonationsTwitter India has partnered with Razorpay for the Tipping feature on its platform. Twitter wants to enable users to make payments on its platform, through ‘Twitter Tip Jar’, to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) journalists, freelancers, content creators and other civil-society groups looking to mobilise funds.

As many Indians got infected by the COVID-19 virus over the last year, with the pace of infections in India breaking global records in the last few months, several startups, content creators and NGOs turned to social media to mobilise funds for on-the-ground relief efforts. Twitter and other social media platforms have played an increasingly important role in India’s COVID-19 fight, helping ordinary citizens reach out to government officials, NGOs, activists and political actors for help.

In early May, Twitter announced that it would launch the Tip Jar feature stating that specific users will be eligible to receive payments. The platform will introduce a Dollar or Rupee icon next to the follow button on a users’ profile. Twitter has been beta testing the feature in India for many months. The Tip Jar icon was enabled on the public profiles of several Twitter India employees.

However, Twitter is currently embroiled in legal battles with the Government of India over two issues, the first being a political fight between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress, and the second being the platforms’ compliance with the new Information Technology Rules 2021 which came into effect on May 26, 2021.

According to the report, Twitter will not charge its users for this service and could work with more payments companies to enable the Tip Jar feature in India. Once the user clicks on the Tip Jar icon, they will be redirected to a Razorpay payments page through which they can make the payment through their debit/credit cards, net banking or the Unified Payments Interface.

While there could be a Rs 1 lakh limit on individual user accounts, merchant accounts registered as businesses could collect higher amounts, the report said citing unnamed sources.
The report stated that majority of the integration work between Razorpay and Twitter has been completed, with a few things left to do before the official launch.

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