The document discusses using Twitter and the StockTwits social media platform to share information about stocks and trading. It describes how StockTwits allows users to post about stocks using stock ticker symbols and how this data could be used as alerts in the Trade-Ideas trading platform. Partnering with influencers on StockTwits like Howard Lindzon could help expose Trade-Ideas to new users and draw in more social traders.
16. Breaking News In dry times, Twitter going back to the funding well? Twitter is closing in on raising another round of funding, according to TechCrunch . The site reports that the micro-messaging service has signed a term sheet with at least one venture fund and that the round will put its valuation at $250 million. MG SIEGLER | JANUARY 24TH, 2009