top | item 2112334 (no title) DuoSRX | 15 years ago $AAPL is used on twitter to talk about stocks, just like # is used for hashtags. Like $AAPL, $GOOG, $MSFT ... etc discuss order hn newest astrodust|15 years ago Ah, Twitter. What symbol will you appropriate next? maukdaddy|15 years ago Probably % kanamekun|15 years ago @astrodust - Perhaps the @ sign? :-)I actually just looked up hash tags on Wikipedia, and was surprised to see that the asterisk is starting to be used to give out "stars" and ratings to items: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#Star_tagsSo I guess so far, microblogging has appropriated at least four symbols: @, #, $ and *. That leaves: !, %, ^, &, and (). syncsynchalt|15 years ago Could it be... interrobang‽ cookiecaper|15 years ago Why is that necessary? Why not just use the symbol? I'd think that $ appears in too many non-stock contexts to really be a useful filtering mechanism. rkudeshi|15 years ago IIRC, it's because of StockTwits. http://stocktwits.com/
astrodust|15 years ago Ah, Twitter. What symbol will you appropriate next? maukdaddy|15 years ago Probably % kanamekun|15 years ago @astrodust - Perhaps the @ sign? :-)I actually just looked up hash tags on Wikipedia, and was surprised to see that the asterisk is starting to be used to give out "stars" and ratings to items: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#Star_tagsSo I guess so far, microblogging has appropriated at least four symbols: @, #, $ and *. That leaves: !, %, ^, &, and (). syncsynchalt|15 years ago Could it be... interrobang‽
kanamekun|15 years ago @astrodust - Perhaps the @ sign? :-)I actually just looked up hash tags on Wikipedia, and was surprised to see that the asterisk is starting to be used to give out "stars" and ratings to items: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#Star_tagsSo I guess so far, microblogging has appropriated at least four symbols: @, #, $ and *. That leaves: !, %, ^, &, and ().
cookiecaper|15 years ago Why is that necessary? Why not just use the symbol? I'd think that $ appears in too many non-stock contexts to really be a useful filtering mechanism. rkudeshi|15 years ago IIRC, it's because of StockTwits. http://stocktwits.com/
astrodust|15 years ago
maukdaddy|15 years ago
kanamekun|15 years ago
I actually just looked up hash tags on Wikipedia, and was surprised to see that the asterisk is starting to be used to give out "stars" and ratings to items: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#Star_tags
So I guess so far, microblogging has appropriated at least four symbols: @, #, $ and *. That leaves: !, %, ^, &, and ().
syncsynchalt|15 years ago
cookiecaper|15 years ago
rkudeshi|15 years ago