Follow the money: A study of cashtags on Twitter
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https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v19i8.5385Keywords:
social media, financial data, TwitterAbstract
The popularity of Twitter goes beyond trending topics, world events, memes, and popular hashtags. Recently a new way of sharing financial information is taking place in social media under the name of cashtags, stock ticker symbols that are prefixed with a dollar sign. In this paper we present an exploratory analysis of cashtags on Twitter. Specifically, we investigate how widespread cashtags are, what stock symbols are tweeted more often, and which users tweet about cashtags in general. We analyze relationships among cashtags and study hashtags in the context of cashtags. Finally, we compare tweet performance to stock market performance. We conclude that cashtags, in particular in combination with other cashtags or hashtags, can be very useful for analyzing financial information and provide new insights into stocks and companies.Downloads
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2014-08-10
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Hentschel, M., & Alonso, O. (2014). Follow the money: A study of cashtags on Twitter. First Monday, 19(8). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v19i8.5385
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