No, they show status updates from unrelated profiles too. I guess, they are indexing updates containing stock names and filtering out posts that don't have a dollar sign before the stock name
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> > 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 > > > > > >
