Amongst all the varied happenings at Twitter, what with the rollout of Twitter Blue, the confusion round checkmarks, the rule modifications, and retractions – amid all of that, this looks as if an odd replace.
Sure, now, whenever you see a cashtag within the app (like, say, $META), you’ll be capable of get a pricing graph for that inventory by tapping by means of on the tag hyperlink, which shall be displayed above any tweets that additionally embody that tag.
As famous by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, the pricing data is sourced by way of TradingView, supplying you with an as much as the minute overview of the present inventory value.
Who cares?
I don’t know. I can’t think about inventory merchants had been pushing to get this data added. And whereas it does add some attention-grabbing context to the encompassing tweet dialogue, it doesn’t seem to be it might have been a precedence addition by any stretch.
However it’s there now – so in the event you wished to look, say, $TSLA…
Okay, perhaps don’t search that one, and positively don’t tweet about it, lest you incur the Chief Twit’s wrath.
As famous, it’s an attention-grabbing addition, simply appears to have been added at an odd time.
However, there it’s, whereas Twitter additionally notes that it’ll look to increase its protection of inventory symbols within the coming months.