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# Amanda Palmer Sold A $20 T-Shirt Every 30 Seconds Last Night Using Chirpify + Twitter
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/amanda-palmer-sold-a-20-t-shirt-every-30-seconds-last-night-using-chirpify-twitter/
- Published: 2012-08-28T09:50:21.000Z
- Updated: 2012-08-28T09:50:21.000Z
- Description: Amanda Palmer has done it again. Last night, using Twitter e-commerce tool Chipify, Palmer began selling a $20 "Stop Pretending Art is Hard" t-shirt just 24 hours after she'd conceptualized. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/08/amanda-palmer-sold-a-20-t-shirt-every-30-seconds-l
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: DIY Advice & Tips, Social Media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:49

[![image from www.google.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2017c31845272970b-120wi "image from www.google.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2017c31845272970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

Amanda Palmer has done it again. Last night, using Twitter e-commerce tool [Chipify,](https://www.hypebot.com/chirpify-lands-12-million-in-funding-launches-twitter-sales-platform-for-music/) Palmer began selling a $20 "Stop Pretending Art is Hard" t-shirt just 24 hours after she'd conceptualized it. Two hours after launch, she was logging a $20 sale  
every 30 seconds. and this isn't the first time that Palmer has profited from a flash sale on Twitter.

[![image from www.google.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20176177b6eaa970c-250wi "image from www.google.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20176177b6eaa970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com)

In 2009, using her blog and Twitter, she conceived and sold $19,000 in "[Friday Night Losers](https://www.hypebot.com/amanda-palmer/)" t-shirts in just 10 hours. “I hereby call THE LOSERS OF FRIDAY NIGHT ON THEIR COMPUTERS to ORDER, motherfucker,” Palmer tweeted her fans to launch that campaign. Ten hours later: " TOTAL MADE THIS MONTH USING TWITTER = $19,000\. TOTAL MADE FROM 30,000 RECORD SALES = ABSOLUTELY NOTHING."

In 2009, buyers were sent to her blog and a traditional e-commerce setup. Last night's tweet linked fans directly to Chirpify: "we did it! Stop Pretending Art is Hard shirt is here for you! Reply "buy" for $20 via @Chirpify [pic.twitter.com/4FZuz6Po](http://t.co/4FZuz6Po?ref=hypebot.com)". Chirpify charges artists a 4% commission in addition to PayPal fees.

Last night's campaign went viral so quickly that at one point Chirpify was the second most  
mentioned [Twitter handle](https://twitter.com/inowgb/status/240197043715452931.?ref=hypebot.com), above Lady Gaga. Earlier this year, Palmer shattered the previous record for music on Kickstarter of $207,980 held by Five Iron Frenzy [raising more than $1 million](https://www.hypebot.com/amanda-palmer-passes-1-million-on-kickstarter/).

**MORE:** [Chirpify Lands $1.3 Million In Funding, Launches Twitter Sales Platform For Music](https://www.hypebot.com/chirpify-lands-12-million-in-funding-launches-twitter-sales-platform-for-music/)