

They had a vision of creating a forum where investors could interact and have detailed discussions on relevant issues such as the market conditions, investing strategies, and personal finance. The founders are Howard Lindzon and Soren Macbeth. The only difference is that Stocktwits is specially designed for investors.

StockTwits appointed a new CEO, Ian Rosen, in July of 2016.This is a platform that was launched in 2008, and it borrows its idea from Twitter. At FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2014, the company’s then-CEO Howard Lindzon gave a presentation titled Investing in a Social, Local, and Mobile World. StockTwits launched its blog network and StockTwits Connect at FinovateEurope 2011. The company facilitates 200 messages each minute across 7,500 individual stocks and tickers. The newest version of the StockTwits app is available in the app store now.įounded in 2008, StockTwits serves as one of the top trading communities and social investing platforms. In a press release, StockTwits CEO Ian Rosen said, “We’ve had so much success with our Robinhood integration that we are excited to get more brokerages used by our community connected.” While the press release did not mention the number of “major brokerages” the TradeIt partnership gives the StockTwits community access to, it made clear that the new addition, “expands StockTwits’ broker offering considerably.” Above: TradeIt’s multi-broker integration Since launch, 40,000 Robinhood accounts have been connected, making a total of 1,000 trades per day on the StockTwits iOS app. StockTwits first introduced brokerage functionality into its iOS app through a partnership with Robinhood in November 2015. This is the San Diego-based company’s second brokerage partnership. With the new integration, traders and investors can now place trades via large brokerages directly within the StockTwits mobile app. StockTwits announced today it has partnered with TradeIt to expand the number of brokerages through which its users can trade.
