My SWAG is that they are just parsing their follower/friend stream themselves and highlighting tokens beginning with $.
-Chad On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Karthik <fermis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm looking for a similar feature too. I wonder how > http://stocktwits.com/streams/all > could show statuses containing $ > > On Feb 21, 10:35 pm, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes, that's correct. Add $ as a token modifier, if you will. >> -Chad >> >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Nick Arnett <nick.arn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Sorry I must have been unclear. >> >> >> I don't want the $ by itself, I want it to be a searchable character >> >> in conjunction with other strings, so I want to search for "$AAPL" or >> >> "$C" much like # is with hashtags. >> >> > FYI, in search engine language this means is that you want words to be >> > tokenized with and without the $ (or other) similar characters. >> > Right now, it sounds like $AAPL is tokenized as "AAPL". If I understand >> > correctly, you'd want the search engine to also add the token "$AAPL". >> > NIck >
