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The funny thing is, there's probably 1000x as many investors talking stocks on IRC, as there are on twitter.

One of the biggest users of the Mibbit IRC widget is a share dealing community in Brazil.

Normally, I'm with you on the irc vs twitter thing, but twitter is centralized (meaning it's really easy to search all the data coming through) and its real time search thing is pretty good. Maybe it's something you could add to mibbit?

Yup, good point. I was mainly meaning if you want volume of users/serious traders, they're more likely hanging out on IRC, than tweeting afaik.

Saying that, opt in, publicly logged channels are in the pipe line for Mib :)

I'd guess they spend more time hanging out in expensive locales in NY and London, or at Gorat's, or other non-twitter, non-IRC, non-online places.

Yeah well IRC lacks all those cool killer features like yellow background gradients, tag clouds and RoR.

don't forget the fail whale

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