Wednesday, 1 August 2012
Twitter rolls out 'Cashtags,' clickable ticker symbols
Posted on 00:09 by Maria Scott
Twitter, the micro-blogging company recently announced a new feature that would allow users to click on ticker symbols, providing them with tweet search results about stocks and companies.
The new feature essentially turns ticker symbols into clickable hashtags, or in this case, ‘cashtags’. Few hours ago, Twitter officially made the announcement via a tweet on their Twitter profile.
"Now you can click on ticker symbols like $GE on twitter.com to see search results about stocks and companies".
The new Twitter cashtags will get displayed on search results, just like the @reply and the #hashtag. Generally, it's easy to track or discover the user created hashtags and tweets in the "Discover" tab. Twitter is trying to apply the same strategy for its users’ quest for real-time financial information, replacing some amount of reliance on Google and other services.
Twitter gave the example of General Electric ($GE) in their cashtag announcement tweet, and for now, we have to assume it will work with a variety of stock-exchanges.
With cashtags, if you click on Apple’s $AAPL for example, you will be directed to all of the tweets with a mention of that company. Just take a look at the image below, and you will understand how it works.
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Twitter-rolls-out-Cashtags-clickable-ticker-symbols_10320.html
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