Amazon lets consumers craft wish lists via Twitter

Once upon a time, Santa Claus had to work for a living, deciphering scribbles on pieces of paper to discern the gift desires of countless children, earning, perhaps, a few dry cookies and some warm milk for his toil. Now, thanks to Amazon.com Inc. and Twitter Inc., the red-suited home invader can lounge back at his North Pole headquarters monitoring tweets to figure out what exactly how much tonnage his reindeers will have to haul this December.