TickerHound’s on Twitter!
Posted by Wayne on November 9, 2008 – 9:19 pmI’ve personally been a Twitter user for about a year now and have really come to enjoy the service. I’ve found a lot of personal value in it and I’ve always thought there’d be a lot of commercial value in it at some point as well.
We’ve always wanted to integrate TickerHound with Twitter in some way but just couldn’t figure out how. Then along came StockTwits…
StockTwits is the brainchild of Howard Lindzon and Soren Macbeth. It ties directly into Twitter and allows users to extract real-time stock-based conversations going on within the Twitter community. I think it’s fantastic and as soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to get TickerHound involved.
Hopefully we’ll be able to have a deeper level of integration at some point in the near future but for now this is how it works…
Anytime a TickerHound member asks a question and “Tags” it with a stock symbol, we’ll automatically pump that question into the TickerHound Twitter account.
Then we link to the question on TickerHound’s site using another amazing service, Bit.ly. This helps us keep the links shorter, track click-throughs and include more of the actual question in the Twitter message.
As I said, I hope we can do more with Twitter and StockTwits in the near future, but for now we all felt that this was a good start.
I hope everybody in Twitter-land enjoys reading and hopefully answering some of the questions that come out of the TickerHound community.
P.S. Anyone who might be interested in building a Twitter-bot (for cash) for us so we can start importing some of the answers that come through Twitter please drop us a line at contact at TickerHound dot com.
