Investors and Companies Drive Record Usage on StockTwits; User Engagement Up 274 Percent and Message Volume Increased by 227 Percent.

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We announced our second quarter earnings via StockTwits last month, and liked that our news was distributed to investors and shareholders in real-time. —Andrea Wentscher, an investor relations manager at BASF

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) August 17, 2011

StockTwits, a real-time social idea network for the investing community and creator of the $(TICKER) tag for the widest syndication of investment information, today announced record usage numbers this earnings season, with time spent on StockTwits.com and the number of ideas contributed up more than 200% in the last 12 months. The spike comes as investors and Fortune 100 and 500 companies alike are turning to StockTwits for access to real-time stock information and a platform from which to disseminate important company news, such as quarterly earnings.

Hundreds of thousands of investors use StockTwits to track stocks and access financial information, while companies like Dell, BASF, eBay, HP, PepsiCo, Royal Dutch Shell, and LinkedIn have claimed their ticker page to create an official social outreach channel. StockTwits creates a rich environment for investors to share ideas about stocks, as well as attain a general sense of the market, while companies use the platform to provide a social channel for communications to shareholders in an environment that includes compliance tools to meet their legal requirements. Information and ideas shared on StockTwits by companies and investors reach its distribution network, comprised of top financial and social media sites such as Yahoo! Finance, Reuters, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, reaching a total of 50 million readers. StockTwits also allows businesses to add context around their ticker that goes beyond the traditional press release, providing new ways to communicate news and updates to investors.

“We announced our second quarter earnings via StockTwits last month, and liked that our news was distributed to investors and shareholders in real-time,” said Andrea Wentscher, an investor relations manager at BASF. “We were excited to discover a new way to leverage social media to connect with investors and influencers in the community, and reach the people that follow our stock through a turnkey distribution network.”

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About StockTwits

With offices in San Diego and New York, StockTwits is a real-time, social idea network for the investing community and creator of the $(TICKER) tag for the widest syndication of investment information. It provides a specialized environment created specifically for investors where users can customize information and networks based on interests and investments, and corporations can easily monitor, disseminate and manage communication within the social media environment. StockTwits was named One of the Best Websites, 2010 by Time Magazine, and was listed as one of the “10 Most Innovative Companies on the Web” by Fast Company.