Amongst all the assorted happenings at Twitter, what with the rollout of Twitter Blue, the confusion round checkmarks, the rule adjustments, and retractions – amid all of that, this looks like an odd replace.
Sure, now, once you see a cashtag within the app (like, say, $META), you’ll have the ability to get a pricing graph for that inventory by tapping via on the tag hyperlink, which will likely be displayed above any tweets that additionally embody that tag.
As famous by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, the pricing information is sourced by way of TradingView, providing 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 information added. And whereas it does add some attention-grabbing context to the encircling tweet dialogue, it doesn’t appear to be it will have been a precedence addition by any stretch.
Nevertheless it’s there now – so in case you needed to look, say, $TSLA…
Okay, perhaps don’t search that one, and undoubtedly 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 broaden its protection of inventory symbols within the coming months.