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it's time to go on a Twitter shopping spree I'm Richard Carey and this is your cnet update the social media giants are finding new ways to get you to spend money first off Facebook is rolling out a buy tickets option so it's easy for you to buy tickets to an event right on facebook it's going to be an option for all event page owners and the buttons will take you to a third-party website right now there's not much to the button except that it's a new way to get your attention Facebook is taking baby steps as it does more and more with commerce twitter is also experimenting with shopping twitter has a new partnership with american express that it's card holders make certain purchases just by tweeting a special hashtag first users have to add twitter info to their amex card account then the American Express Twitter account will tweet out these discount deals and if you'll want one of them you have to reply with a special hashtag American Express thin sends a reply back with a confirming hashtag and if you confirm within 15 minutes the transaction is complete and the item is mailed to the address on file of course even though you'll be getting something on sale you'll be telling the whole world what you're purchasing so I hope you don't mind giving up your privacy or hope the person you're given a gift for doesn't use Twitter so Apple's CEO Tim Cook he is really not a fan of OLED displays while Cook was speaking at an investor conference he said the color saturation of OLED displays were quote awful yeah he didn't hold back on that one he added that you just can't trust the color accuracy of oulad of course apples biggest rival Samsung uses OLED in the latest galaxy smartphones cook went on to say that he doesn't want to get into a battle over size of screens or prices but rather experiences like the quality of the display and in-home theater news an Intel executive confirmed that in tow we'll be unveiling an internet-based TV service and box later this year until will provide the hardware and the services direct to consumers and this box will have a camera to detect who is in front of the TV so we'll have to keep an eye out for that we've seen plenty of apps that share short video clips but there's a new one that's doing audio talk bits is like a Twitter for people who want to talk set of type your message is limited to 15 seconds and you have that voice message shared into a channel channels are themed around different locations so you can be given a message about what's going on in your city town or ask a question to locals about places to visit it's free and available for iOS and Android but it's still very new so it'll take some time to build a network of engaged users for now you could just have fun making shout outs to the early adopters or maybe you can describe your lunch to this guy that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey