StockTwits, a financial communications company, was founded in 2008. The company’s signal achievement is the creation of the so-called “cashtag” — $TICKER. When a user clicks on the cashtag at the StockTwits site, the Twitter stream associated with the ticker is displayed along with a stock price quote and other information.
Yesterday, Twitter introduced its own “cashtag” stream:
Howard Lindzon, the founder of StockTwits, is not amused:
I am disappointed of course that Twitter is hijacking our idea and time (will only confuse the masses) [sic], but StockTwits moved beyond that basic functionality 4 years ago. In a dirty way, it’s the ultimate compliment so we will take it as such for the moment and keep rolling out functionality that makes us the best real-time communication platform for people that love stocks and markets.
It’s a bit hard to feel Lindzon’s pain, though. Without Twitter, there would very likely be no StockTwits.
Twitter appears to have reclaimed a piece of its own turf.
Paul Ausick
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