What could be better than an app that lets you make payments to friends, charities or crowdfunding sites with a few taps on your smartphone? How about an app that does all that — and tells everyone what you spent.

That’s essentially what French mobile payment company S-money, a subsidiary of banking group BPCE, has created with its integration of Twitter as a means of transmitting payment orders to its existing mobile app.

S-money’s app allows French bank account holders with a French mobile number to make payments to one another or to organizations that subscribe to the service. However, there’s no technical or regulatory reason why the service couldn’t operate in other countries, said BPCE development director Nicolas Chatillon, as S-money holds a European Union license to make financial transactions.

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