Tell Us What You Feel About Stocks
November 18, 2011 by Hudson Watts · Leave a Comment
It’s not just for checking in with friends and needy movie stars anymore. Twitter and its financially focused satellites have become the digital world’s ticker tape.
Twitter (http://twitter.com) spinoffs like StockTwits (http://stocktwits.com), FINIF (www.finif.com) and Stocial (www.stocial.com) have become incubators for stockpickers, and barometers of intraday trends. Okay, much of the tweet stream is market noise, or the usual misdirection from the misguided. Regardless of technology, that’s never likely to change.
But there must be some value to them, because the five-year-old Twitter ecosystem and its stock-oriented forums have taken off this year. Twitter itself now counts more than 100 …