Twitter began to prioritize financial news by announcing the new feature "cashtags." This is the ticker symbol feature that can be clicked, like $ AAPL, $ GOOG and $ FB, which allows users to search for the company's financial statements.
Twitter to announce this new feature through the game it says: "Now you can click on the ticker symbols like $ GE on http://twitter.com to see search results about stocks and companies."
According to The Verge, cashtag is also another innovation Twitter, like @ reply and # hashtag. Hashtag evolved into a social network tab "Discover." In this case cashtag be part of a strategy to keep Twitter users do not go to another site or stay at Twitter.com
On the other hand, the social network in the world trade by StockTwits their CEO, Howard Lindzon, alleging that Twitter has hijacked one of their main features. "You can not hijack the plane but this does not mean you know how to fly." Twitter earlier told him that Tiwtter cashtag not interested in creating their own.
Currently, cashtag take users to a search for a ticker symbol of Twitter but do not show extended information in the Twitter service. Of course, eventually this will soon change.
Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.
