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time to go shopping on Twitter and get ready for more video commercials in your strings I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update twitter is a network for keeping up with what's happening right now within the moment reactions from people around the world and now twitter is also for spontaneous shopping the social network is allowing some companies musicians and charities to put a Buy button right on a tweet so if you stumble on a post to buy something once you click on the buy button you'll get a prompt to confirm your shipping and payment information because yes that means you'll be storing your credit card data with Twitter and once you confirm the item is on its way the whole sale is completed without ever leaving the Twitter app this is first launched into some us members for the iOS and Android apps facebook also recently began testing out a Buy button and Twitter is following suit as it continues to find new ways to make money of course Twitter is not the only medium that's experimenting with new ways of getting revenue Spotify is launching video advertisements for the 30 million users who do not pay for premium subscriptions to listen to the streaming music they can watch a sponsor's video ad on their phone to keep listening for another 30 minutes without commercials facebook is also hungry for more video advertising the social network reports that since june there have been more than 1 billion video views on facebook every day so to woo over marketers and to get more companies to publish their videos facebook will show how many people have viewed a video for pages and public figures by flaunting the number of video views facebook could convince advertisers to spend more to put ads on the network instead of on television and on the topic of video if you find yourself needing more space on the DVR to record shows tebow has a new product that will store three years worth of video it's called the tivo mega and it comes out a mega price five thousand dollars it's basically a rack mountable server case with a TiVo logo slapped on the front and when it comes out next year you can get ten swappable hard drives for a total of 24 bites of storage space you can just transfer video from your computer to this as a way to store your entire movie catalog if you don't need that much there's also tivos Romeo Pro which stores a week's worth of programming there seems to be a new messaging app cropping up all the time but one new app puts a snapchat spin on audio it's called chit chat and instead of sending a photo that will disappear you can send a voice message that will self-destruct once it's heard you could argue that that's safer than sending a scandalous photo of yourself that's your tech news updates stay updated on the latest at cnet com and be sure to follow along on Twitter and subscribe to our podcast from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey