StockTwits takes it to the next level September 2, 2009
Posted by James Webster in : web, finance , trackbackThe long decline of Bloomberg continues… StockTwits has launched a desktop application based on Adobe AIR (further reporting from TechCrunch). The list of features is pretty impressive;
- Twitter integration naturally, although it appears StockTwits is also building out their own microblogging backend (presumably API compatible with Twitter)
- Chart sharing with Chart.ly, which StockTwits acquired)
- StockTwits TV; their burgeoning competitor to CNBC/Bloomberg TV/Fox Business News. The accuracy of StockTwits TV reporting can’t be much more fantastical than that of the big boys’ sometimes is, they are often rabidly bullish.
- SkyGrid business news integration
Presumably porfolio management features might be integrated as well. I also wonder if they could take a big step further and build in some rudimentary FIX API integration… especially if they want to attempt to sell into the ‘pro-am’ daytrading market, although brokers that make FIX access available for daytraders at a price they can afford tend to be hard (impossible?) to find. Maybe StockTwits next step will be to set up a brokerage themselves?
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