Recommended Reading: Don’t try to shop on Facebook or Twitter

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I Tried Holiday Shopping on Facebook and Twitter and Got Nowhere
Kurt Wagner, Recode
Facebook and Twitter may be testing options for buying products from ads and sponsored posts, but don’t try to take care of your holiday list that way. As Recode’s Kurt Wagner discovered, those buy buttons are pretty much non-existent unless you’re in the test group. In fact, he didn’t even stumble across a misplaced option to purchase in the News Feed.



