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.
Below is the Sample of Cashtags
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