StockTwits

StockTwits is a social media platform for investors, traders, and entrepreneurs to share ideas. Howard Lindzon and Soren Macbeth co-founded the company in 2009. In the 2008 finance category, the company received its first Shorty Award. Time magazine named the company one of the "50 best websites" in 2010. FastCompany named the company one of the "top 10 most innovative companies in finance" in 2012. StockTwits had 230,000 active members in June 2013. By the middle of 2019, that figure had risen to 2 million, and the company had launched free online trading via an iOS app. The Stocktwits platform added cryptocurrency and equity trading in 2022.

StockTwits had over 230,000 active members in 2013, 3 million by 2020, and 5 million by 2021, according to the homepage dashboard. Lindzon advises new traders to spend time learning the language on StockTwits. He claims that "you don't learn Spanish in a day, and you won't learn how to invest in stocks in a day, either. Consider it a language." Lindzon collaborated with Philip Pearlman and Ivaylo Ivanoff on the book The StockTwits Edge: 40 Actionable Trade Set-Ups from Real Market Pros to help new users get the most out of the service.

Founded: 2008

Headquarters: New York, U.S.

Twitter: @Stocktwits (977N followers)

Website: https://stocktwits.com/