Twitter expands its cryptocurrency price-display feature

Twitter developers quietly added thirty leading cryptocurrencies to the function that displays asset price charts.

The additions represent a development of the $Cashtags initiative, which the Twitter Business account announced on December 21, 2022. When searching for the combination of the $ symbol and a public-company ticker, index or ETF, a price chart began to appear. Initially the function also supported the two largest cryptocurrencies — Bitcoin and Ethereum.

However, a number of leading cryptocurrencies are not supported by the feature. This applies, for example, to BNB (4th in market cap, according to CoinGecko). Also price widgets are missing for Polkadot (DOT) and Tron (TRX) — both assets are in the top-20.

When unveiling the $Cashtags feature in December, the Twitter team announced improvements to the user interface and expanded coverage of tickers “in the coming weeks”.

In the coming weeks, we’ll refine the user experience and expand our coverage of symbols.

— Twitter Business (@TwitterBusiness) December 21, 2022

The data provider for the widget is TradingView; a button link from it leads to the Robinhood platform. The social network has not made any official statements about a collaboration with them.

Earlier in November, the purchase of Twitter for $44bn was completed by Elon Musk. In November, the billionaire shared slides of the platform update, which allowed cryptocurrency payments integration.

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