Amazon Introduces #AmazonWishList For Twitter

With the holiday season kicking off soon, Amazon has developed a new way for customers to add items to their Amazon wish lists.

Consumers can now update their wish lists on Twitter using the hash tag #AmazonWishList. When shoppers find tweets from brands and friends that include a Amazon.com product links, they can reply with the hashtag and immediately have the product added to their wish list.

To activate the new feature, customers must connect their Twitter and Amazon.com, and their Twitter accounts also must be public. When the item is successfully added to the wish list, users will receive a reply tweet from the @MyAmazon Twitter account and an email from the retailer.

“Twitter offers Amazon customers a great environment for inspiration and discovery,” said John Yurcisin, Director of Social at Amazon. “#AmazonWishList makes it easy for people to quickly add holiday gifts, décor or entertaining items tweeted by interesting people, friends, or brands on Twitter to their Amazon Wish List, allowing customers to simply save items to their Wish List and keep on Tweeting.”

The wish list feature from Amazon includes a variety of other components, such as:

Save-A-Photo, which allows customers to snap photos and save them to their wish lists;
Universal Wish List Add-on, so customers can add items from a variety of web sites to their Amazon wish lists;
Hidden Wish List, which hides purchased items from the wish list creator; and
Virtual Notes.