Linking up with LinkedIn to Increase Reach for StockTwits Members

It’s a big week for social media, especially LinkedIn.

Tomorrow’s scheduled Initial Public Offering of LinkedIn stock has the StockTwits community buzzing. Already, the IPO has indicated a pricing 30% above early estimates, valuing LinkedIn (proposed ticker: $LNKD) at $4 billion. This has been fueling conversation on an active $LNKD stream on StockTwits.

This event is not only significant to LinkedIn, but is also being viewed as a barometer of investor appetite in the increasingly frenetic social media space. Interested parties at Groupon, Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga (among others) will be paying close attention to the public reception LinkedIn enjoys tomorrow and in the weeks to follow.

 

 

At StockTwits, we are bullish on LinkedIn. We have recently installed an additional broadcasting feature which allows users who message directly from StockTwits to push their messages to their LinkedIn networks as well.

This is part of a larger initiative to expand reach for members who are sharing great content, trading ideas, and commentary on the StockTwits streams. Members are now able to push messages directly to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Also, via API partnerships, members also see their messages broadcast on CNNMoney, Yahoo! Finance, Bing Finance, Bloomberg, Investopedia, and more coming soon.

We are excited to be able to offer you these abilities to expand your audience, and the new LinkedIn connection is just another example of our efforts to build you the most user-friendly platform for idea discovery, sharing, and networking we can.

Best of luck to LinkedIn on their successful public offering. Keep up the great work! We’ll be following the action on the stream.

- Sean McLaughlin: Editor, StockTwits


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