StockTwits Desktop

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By Barry Ritholtz - August 26th, 2009, 10:25AM

I just saw a demo of the new StockTwits Desktop.  This is the 2nd wicked cool product I have seen recently.  Its a combination of a “social Bloomberg” meets an iTunes Music Store for finance.

This is going to be very very neat trade related tool/product . . .

The Old Stock version of StockTwits (below) will continue operating on Twitter data. It will be the “Lite” web version of StockTwits; The full powered version will become a free downloadable app for your desktop. . .

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That’s the really cool aspect of recessions: The ideas keep bubbling up amongst the creative innovators, regardless of market action.

12 Responses to “StockTwits Desktop”

  1. constantnormal Says:

    if one could build a substantial following, this would be an ideal tool for personal front-running …

  2. Barry Ritholtz Says:

    Howard is all about challenging Goldman Sachs in dominance in front running

  3. Howard "Front-Running" Lindzon Says:

    Please send me your Trades so I can directly front you and send the order to Goldie once I am in . . .

  4. constantnormal Says:

    Of course, this would also gift-wrap a front-running case for the SEC, so you’d better have an ownership position there, with a purchased senator as backup.

  5. cvienne Says:

    Fantastic!

    They finally found a permanent home for Abbey Joseph Cohen!

    ‘StockTwits’ …That get’s a 10 thumbs up for name value alone.

  6. dougc Says:

    Tell me why I should care what the twits are buying?

  7. dcsos Says:

    Unfortunately while stocktwits is great, twitter is not.
    After you join, you will be spammed daily by outfits purporting to be single women.

  8. Wednesday links: extreme days Abnormal Returns Says:

    [...] Good things are happening for StockTwits.  (Howard Lindzon, Big Picture) [...]

  9. John Reeder Says:

    @dcsos – So when you say “purporting to be”, does that mean those aren’t real single women? I am now more than a little disappointed with Twitter. I thought I had suddenly become extremely popular with members of the opposite sex…

  10. torrie-amos Says:

    well, i really don’t see much difference in that and chat boards or any other board, if more info was better we’d never have had a bear market, as jesse says, play your own hand, always

  11. leftback Says:

    It’s a well-known fact that 99% of single women are in fact spotty teenage males in a basement in Parsippany.

  12. wunsacon Says:

    Is that portal a collection point for GS? We should write a daemon to spam such boards with symbols like “WF GS BAC …”