Having summarised The Top Payments News Stories in February, 2016 i noticed that some stories were hugely popular on twitter. Some payments news stories received a huge number of likes and retweets, and for me that in itself provides a fascinating insight into what stories and themes are engaging people the most in the industry. I started to analyse and delve into these trending payments related tweets to see the stories, the overall themes and the tweeters (is that even a word/title?!?). The listed payments themes were tweeted the most:
- Payments Security
- Simplifying payments – from international payments to simpler ways for merchants to accept payments
- Payments and the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearables
- Faster payments
- Mobile payments
- And of course fintech start up companies and innovation
Following are the most popular payments tweets from February 2016.
The Most Popular Payments Tweets from February 2016:
1. Payments Security – Tokenisation
The INTERAC TSP enables secure digital payment solutions. Learn more: https://t.co/TwvQLrlJ4V #payments #FinTech pic.twitter.com/nbNLxy5G7P
— INTERAC (@INTERAC) 23 February 2016
2. International Payments
@TheoPaphitis #SBS A #Innovative #Fintech firm simplfying how businesses SEND & RECIEVE International #Payments pic.twitter.com/hC3cHUUf0S — TransferMate (@TransferMate) 7 February 2016
3. Payments and the Internet of Things 24/17
How The Internet Of Things Is Becoming The Internet Of #Payments https://t.co/U9tjNAEBLz #iot #fintech pic.twitter.com/oM68M2wEdK — Chris Gledhill (@cgledhill) 29 February 2016
4. Faster Payments
Faster #Payments Isn’t Just a New Strategy for Banks—It’s a Musthttps://t.co/MJZuaTi0qv #fintech pic.twitter.com/XyKDkPHPbQ — Chris Gledhill (@cgledhill) 29 February 2016
5. Mobile Payments
Nearly 1bn to use #NFC #payments by 2019https://t.co/6RRyrqUCpf #fintech pic.twitter.com/OY4QfQE8Gf — Chris Gledhill (@cgledhill) 26 February 2016
6. Fintech in Switzerland
Swiss #Fintech #Startup Map Overview #payments #crowdfunding #bigdata https://t.co/lmotG1mgpB pic.twitter.com/1OR35pSxZf — Andreas Staub (@andi_staub) 26 February 2016
7. Payment Start Ups and Fintech
PaymentEye: @500Startups launches new $25M fund for early-stage #FinTech #Payments led by Sheel Mohnot https://t.co/1LoZfddAdL cc @pitdesi — Dave McClure (@davemcclure) 24 February 2016
8. Simplifying Payments
Klarna: Buy Things With Just Email and Zip Code (video) https://t.co/HUYTQT61fs @Klarna #Klarna #payments #merchants — Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) 24 February 2016
9. Payments and Wearables
.@Coin launch dev program for accelerating integration of #payments into #wearableshttps://t.co/ibHxLII381 #fintech pic.twitter.com/IcnwHgOuWr — Chris Gledhill (@cgledhill) 24 February 2016
10. Payments Innovation
16 Ways To Ignite Innovation In #Payments < Great List Collated By The @EPAssoc https://t.co/VkMsEQlfVy #fintech — Neira Jones (@neirajones) 26 February 2016
Note: The most popular payments tweets from February 2016 were identified as follows:
- The most popular tweets – those were the tweets that were retweeted and liked the most
- Tweets during the period: 1st-29th February, 2016
- Tweets that used the hastag #payments
- Promoted tweets were not included – i only wanted to capture ‘organically’ popular tweets
- Ranking are based on the statistics at the time of writing this post