Two weeks ago we announced that we were going to start using Twitter to communicate with our readers. As of today, we are happy to say that our efforts have been warmly received by both our readers and the Twitter community. If you haven’t already, check out what all the fuss is about here: twitter.com/247wallstIf you haven’t heard about our efforts or want to learn more about why Twitter makes sense for you as a 24/7 reader, please read the following announcement and watch the brief (and amusing) video about how Twitter works.
24/7 Wall St. Announces Integration of New Twitter FeatureAs many of our readers know, 24/7 Wall St. writes copy for a number of sites including our own sites and those of our partners. Our own sites include 24/7 Wall St., Voume Spike Investor, and BioHealthInvestor. Some of our partner sites include AOL Money & Finance, Marketwatch, MSN, Stockhouse, BloggingStocks, and Huffington Post.As a result of the somewhat fractured nature of our editorial process, we frequently don’t have the opportunity to share all of our stories with the regular readers of 24/7 Wall St. We aim to change that.24/7 Wall St. is going to try something new. We have created a Twitter page. In the site’s own words, Twitter is a way to “communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent, answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” Using Twitter, we will be able to let our readers in on what we are working on as well as what we’ve just finished.In short, Twitter will enable us to accomplish four simple goals:1) aggregate stories that might not make it onto 24/7 Wall St.’s homepage2) highlight stories on 24/7 Wall St. or other sites that we think are noteworthy3) engage in some old-fashioned rumormongering4) encourage a real-time exchange with our readers and find out what they think about the marketsIf you’re interested in any of these, follow us at twitter.com/a673b.bigscoots-temp.com and look for our new “Twitter Updates” feature on the right side of the page.Thanks to commoncraft and Lee Le Fever for putting the video together.24/7 Wall St.
24/7 Wall St. Hooks Up With Twitter
Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.
McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.
His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
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