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StockTwits is a social media platform designed for sharing ideas between investors, traders, and entrepreneurs. The company was co-founded by Howard Lindzon and Soren Macbeth in 2009. The company received the first annual Shorty Award in the 2008 finance category. ''Time'' magazine listed the company as one of their 2010 "50 best websites". The company was also named one of the "top 10 most innovative companies in finance" in 2012 by ''FastCompany''. As of June 2013 StockTwits currently has 230,000 active members. ==History== The idea for the company came from a 2008 blog post where Lindzon suggested that Twitter would be great for stocks and markets even though he once passed on the opportunity to invest in the company. Lindzon teamed up with Soren Macbeth to form the company in 2009. The company utilized Twitter's application programming interface (API) to integrate StockTwits as its own "highly graphical platform of market news, sentiment and stock-picking tools." StockTwits utilized "cashtags" with the stock ticker symbol, similar to the Twitter hashtag, as a way of indexing people's thoughts and ideas about a company and the stock. StockTwits received the first annual Shorty Award in the 2008 finance category. Incorporation of the company Abnormal Returns in 2010 has boosted the content available to StockTwits subscribers. StockTwits began offering a service in 2011 that allows companies to manage and monitor information within the service. Lindzon says it also allows a company to "monitor discussion about the company".〔 ''Time'' magazine listed StockTwits as one of their 2010 "50 best websites". StockTwits was named one of the "top 10 most innovative companies in finance" in 2012 by ''FastCompany''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top 10 most innovative companies in finance )〕 As of June 2013, StockTwits has raised $8.6 million in venture capital but has not yet made a profit. Fifty percent of the company's revenue comes from financial data sold to clients including Bloomberg L.P. and Google.〔 Lindzon believes a "cultural change" is needed for the large financial institutions to embrace this technology and that change may take as long as five years.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「StockTwits」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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