Buy and Sell Stuff on Twitter Classifieds?

Move over Craigslist and eBay, there’s a new classifieds in town. iList Micro is is an interesting new classifieds site that uses Twitter. You simply add the hashtags #ihave if you’re selling something or #iwant if you want to buy something and the iList Micro robot grabs it and posts it on their list. If you follow @microilist and they see that your tweet matches up with another user’s, they’ll direct message both of you.

iList Micro is brought to you by iList, an interesting online classifieds that lets you notify your social network friends on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and MySpace when you post a classified ad.

I hope they have moderators checking the Twitter classifieds before they get posted because there’s definitely potential for abuse since anyone can add a hashtag to a tweet. I didn’t see anything too outrageous but I did see several examples of non-classified related posts.

Here are some of the classified ads I saw where the people are using the system in the way it’s intended.

Here are some ads where I’m not too sure the twits have grasped the concept.

I’m not sure how far this idea will go and it’s only a matter of time until the spammers, pornographers, penis enlargement pill pushers, and other assorted idiots jump onboard, so I wish the folks at iList Micro luck.