Twitter has added a brand new crypto characteristic that permits Twitter customers to look the worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) just by typing “Bitcoin” or “Ethereum” into the search tab.
The Elon Musk-led social media platform didn’t announce the brand new characteristic to the general public. Nonetheless, the Documenting Bitcoin account was one of many first to focus on the replace, and shared a screenshot of the brand new value index characteristic to its 853,700 Twitter followers on Dec. 21.
Twitter now reveals the #bitcoin value! pic.twitter.com/GWg6i3Ibkb
— Documenting Bitcoin (@DocumentingBTC) December 21, 2022
Upon looking out crypto token names on Twitter, Ether’s value additionally reveals up too, nonetheless it seems that BTC and ETH are the one two value charts that come up on Twitter’s search tab. Different prime cryptocurrencies, together with Musk’s beloved Dogecoin (DOGE) has not made the lower in the intervening time.
Cointelegraph additionally discovered that typing in “$Ethereum,” “Ethereum value” and “ETH value” additionally pulls up the worth chart, with equal searches additionally working for Bitcoin.
The value charts additionally embrace a “View on Robinhood” hyperlink that may be clicked within the backside left hand nook, suggesting the retail buying and selling platform has teamed up with Twitter for this integration.
There, customers are delivered to Robinhood’s value chart for ETH, which offers an extra hyperlink beneath stating “Signal As much as Purchase Ethereum.” The identical hyperlinks are offered for Bitcoin too.
Nonetheless, no partnership particulars have ybeen disclosed between Twitter and Robinhood.
Twitter’s value chart integration could arguably result in extra site visitors to Robinhood, as #Bitcoin alone is tweeted roughly 120,000 occasions per day, in accordance to information from BitInfoCharts.
This determine would seemingly be a lot increased if different tweet tags comparable to Bitcoin, $Bitcoin, BTC and $BTC had been included within the determine.
#Ethereum however hoddles at across the 25,000 vary.
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Earlier this month, rumors started to flow into on Dec. 4 that Twitter could create its personal native cryptocurrency “Twitter Coin” for use for funds on the platform, which got here a couple of week after Musk shared a glimpse into what “Twitter 2.0” could seem like on Nov. 27 — which included the potential integration of cryptocurrency-based funds on Twitter.
However Musk’s future at Twitter seems to be on the crossroads after the controversial determine requested Twitter whether or not he ought to “step down as head of Twitter?” in a Dec. 19 Twitter ballot — with 57.5 of the 17,502,391 voters polling “Sure.”
Musk later added that he “will resign as CEO as quickly as I discover somebody silly sufficient to take the job!”
