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start searching real time discussions from the web's savviest investors. I'm sure the web's savviest investors are just sitting around on Twitter pointing out
by kirse 17y ago
start searching real time discussions from the web's savviest investors.
I'm sure the web's savviest investors are just sitting around on Twitter pointing out their upcoming positions and next big moves in the market.
Other than that, I do think this is a brilliant platform for generic real-time stock news (why is this stock tanking 10% in AH??). The Google Finance and Yahoo Finance message boards are often clogged with so much junk and spam there's nothing of value.
- axod 17y agoThe funny thing is, there's probably 1000x as many investors talking stocks on IRC, as there are on twitter. One of the biggest users of the Mibbit IRC widget is a share dealing community in Brazil.
- josefresco 17y agoYeah well IRC lacks all those cool killer features like yellow background gradients, tag clouds and RoR.
- gmoney 17y agodon't forget the fail whale
- davidw 17y agoNormally, I'm with you on the irc vs twitter thing, but twitter is centralized (meaning it's really easy to search all the data coming through) and its real time search thing is pretty good. Maybe it's something you could add to mibbit?
- axod 17y agoYup, good point. I was mainly meaning if you want volume of users/serious traders, they're more likely hanging out on IRC, than tweeting afaik. Saying that, opt in, publicly logged channels are in the pipe line for Mib :)
- davidw 17y agoI'd guess they spend more time hanging out in expensive locales in NY and London, or at Gorat's, or other non-twitter, non-IRC, non-online places.