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  Turnx (@heisturnx) reported 1 minute ago

  Cards that usually work best: • Grey .co USD virtual card • Physical dollar card from Nigerian banks Avoid random cheap virtual cards. That’s where many people run into PayPal issues.

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  Cyprx Research Lab Official (@CyprxResearch) reported 2 minutes ago

  Why can $10,000 in USDC settle in 2 seconds… while a wire can still take 5 days? Because most “instant” payments aren’t actually instant. Cards, PayPal, ACH: - Fast user experience - Slow underlying settlement Stablecoins changed the model: - Near real-time finality - 24/7 settlement - Minimal fees But this isn’t a winner-takes-all story. Cards still dominate dispute protection. ACH still wins cheap recurring payments. SWIFT still matters globally. The real shift: From single-rail finance to intelligent multi-rail routing. The next decade belongs to whoever routes each payment to the best rail for the job.

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  Gogopawra🐾💛 🇵🇸 (@Gogopawra) reported 2 minutes ago

  Artists who switched from using paypal to VGen payment did you face problems?

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  Kung'u wa Kinyatti (@kinyaatii) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Kade_Cin im not sure why paypal blocks some accounts because ive been recieving payments ever since i opened my account back in 2012. Ive recieved as high as $900 without any problems..Till today my account is in good standing with paypal. Mine is a business account. Its free to convert your account to business one.

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  Joe Kerick (@JoeKerick) reported 9 minutes ago

  @PayPal Must be nice. Where is my cut because for a month now you have held my money and wont let access it and closed my account without ever giving me a chance to resolve an issue.. AND I cant even feed my family cause you are holding my money for an issue I knew nothing about.

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  TechEdgeDaily (@techedgedaily) reported 10 minutes ago

  @eleliayub @PayPal @AskPayPal Few things that usually fix this fast: – Call PayPal directly instead of waiting on chat or email. Phone support has more authority to release holds. – Upload an invoice or proof of the transaction. PayPal flags transactions that look like they have no context. A simple invoice showing what the $150 was for usually resolves it same day. – Link a bank account if you haven't already. Unverified accounts get flagged more aggressively. – If it keeps happening, switch to Wise or Mercury for freelance payments. Both are built for exactly this and neither treats $150 like a federal crime. PayPal's fraud detection is aggressive by design. It would rather block 100 legitimate transactions than miss one bad one. Doesn't make it less frustrating but knowing why helps fix it faster.

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  T Hausl (@barbiq2025) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Steam_Support I cannot buy the controller via paypal or any card. always says: There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance. what should I do ? #Steam

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  Johnny Chaos (@ccfxstudios) reported 11 minutes ago

  Sure except the part where stables have admin keys and they can be frozen or disabled with no notice. Crypto space is broken when they think that's what crypto is. Where is the freedom? Want to send dollars we have that, PayPal, venmo, and cash app. You can do all that from your phone as well.

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  Kai - Briefing Block (@briefing_block_) reported 12 minutes ago

  $PYPL - PayPal’s problem is not growth. It’s what that growth is worth. PayPal just printed $8.35 billion of revenue, up 7%, and processed roughly $464 billion of payment volume, up 11%. On the surface, that is not a broken business. The issue is that the earnings bridge still looks too thin. Net profit fell to $1.11 billion from $1.29 billion, while transaction margin dollars rose only 3% to $3.8 billion. That is the market’s problem with PayPal in one sentence: more volume is coming through the rails, but the incremental economics are not yet convincing. Quality of growth Payment companies can always look better at the top line when volume is expanding. What matters is whether that volume is branded, sticky, defensible, and margin-accretive. PayPal’s higher-margin branded checkout volume grew just 2%, which makes the 11% TPV growth feel less clean than the headline suggests. Venmo and payment services can help, but investors are not paying for activity alone; they are paying for transaction margin durability. Management knows the gap. That is why the new plan is built around AI, simplification, and at least $1.5 billion of gross run-rate savings over the next two to three years. But cost cutting is not the same as operating leverage. It can protect EPS, buy time, and clean up the org chart, but it does not automatically prove the core checkout franchise is reaccelerating. The Q2 guide is the tell PayPal expects Q2 adjusted EPS to fall around 9%, and transaction margin dollars to decline about 3%. That is not the type of guide a market wants to hear from a company already trying to convince investors the turnaround is taking hold. To me, the stock debate is no longer “can PayPal grow?” It clearly can. The harder question is whether growth is coming from the right places, at the right margins, with enough operating leverage to matter. Until transaction margin dollars grow faster and more consistently than volume, PayPal remains a scale story with an earnings conversion problem. Bottom line: PayPal is not short on transactions; it is short on proof that those transactions are getting more valuable.

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  Beth Marie Evans (@BethMarieEvans) reported 13 minutes ago

  @9QQI9 I’m ok with the one I have. My son pulled mine off FTX the day that all went down. Some Of my Cripto is also on PayPal.

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  saku ☆ 🩷 (@sakuuux3) reported 18 minutes ago

  @ashypilots balance isn't an issue dumbass you can't send money through paypal in india btw, im sorry everyone the refund he's speaking of will probably never get to you 😭 request a refund through paypal!

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  Plane biker (@urbanavgeek) reported 20 minutes ago

  @BennyFrank1783 @unusual_whales I guess since "good businesses" are moving out, bad businesses move in. Like JP Morgan (3-4 billion office building). Amex 10,000 jobs announced in Feb. Google, Amazon, PayPal, OpenAI. All terrible companies that are expanding in NYC. Blatantly apparent you know fuckall.

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  Sam Boboev (@samboboev) reported 21 minutes ago

  BREAKING: @PayPal to Cut 20% of Staff Amid Turnaround Push The job eliminations are part of PayPal’s new plans to accelerate its adoption of artificial intelligence and cut costs. The planned reduction would amount to 4,760 positions based on the 23,800 employees PayPal reported having at the end of 2025. The layoffs were reported earlier by Bloomberg. Chief Executive Enrique Lores told investors Tuesday that he thinks PayPal has underinvested in its technology platform and is falling behind other financial services companies. He wants to cut down on what he sees as unnecessary layers of the business to spend more on AI and becoming a technology leader. “PayPal needs to focus,” he said. “We need to recommit to the fundamentals.” Lores, who joined in March after Alex Chriss was ousted, said he wants to trim costs so the company can spend more on putting out new technology. “First, we will remove duplication and layers from our organizational structure. Second, we will accelerate our AI adoption and automation across our operations,” Lores said. Shares are down more than 8% at $45.93 on Tuesday. The cost-cutting efforts are expected to yield, at a minimum, $1.5 billion in gross run-rate savings over the next two to three years, management said. PayPal didn’t specify which areas of the business would see cost reductions. This year and next, PayPal will be rearranging its teams and building new systems and processes to run the business, management said. PayPal’s board brought in Lores, a former chief executive of HP, earlier this year because it was unhappy with “the pace of change” under Chriss. The company had been trying to diversify beyond its checkout business, which had seen growth slow since the pandemic. Lores said his highest priority is the checkout business, which lets customers use PayPal when making purchases with online retailers. He said he sees room for growth in buy now, pay later, as customers are increasingly looking for flexible payment options. His other focuses are financial services, Venmo and payment processing. PayPal reported a lower first-quarter profit of $1.11 billion, or $1.21 a share, compared with a profit of $1.29 billion, or $1.29 a share, a year earlier. Stripping out certain one-time items, adjusted earnings were $1.34 a share, ahead of the $1.27 that analysts were expecting, according to FactSet. During his time helming HP, Lores became known for streamlining the tech company and pivoting it toward AI and subscriptions. Paypal’s cost-cutting effort marks the second major initiative under Lores. Last week, PayPal said it would reorganize into three business units: Checkout Solutions & PayPal, Consumer Financial Services & Venmo, and Payment Services & Crypto. Source: Wall Street Journal

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  Believer (@GinaP1forChrist) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Venmo Your app is not allowing me to put in my deposits to verify my bank account, not allowing me to add a new debit card! Customer service is poor and could not help at all! Terrible! @paypal @venmo

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  Grok (@grok) reported 27 minutes ago

  @TimeWith99961 Got it—Twitch affiliate approval is based on the public metrics (50 followers, 8 hours/7 days streamed, 3 avg concurrent viewers in the 30-day window). Connecting PayPal or signing the affiliate agreement happens *after* you qualify for payouts, not as a shortcut to instant approval. No evidence they gate it that way or sell your info for spam. Landline calls are a widespread issue from many sources. Focus on pushing those viewer-hours up consistently.