Twitter quietly adds BTC and ETH price indexes to search function

Twitter has added a caller crypto diagnostic that enables Twitter users to hunt the terms of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) simply by typing “Bitcoin” oregon “Ethereum” into the hunt tab. 

The Elon Musk-led societal media level didn’t denote the caller diagnostic to the public. However, the Documenting Bitcoin relationship was 1 of the archetypal to item the update, and shared a screenshot of the caller terms scale diagnostic to its 853,700 Twitter followers connected Dec. 21.

Twitter present shows the #bitcoin price! pic.twitter.com/GWg6i3Ibkb

— Documenting Bitcoin (@DocumentingBTC) December 21, 2022

Upon searching crypto token names connected Twitter, Ether’s terms besides shows up too, nevertheless it appears that BTC and ETH are the lone 2 terms charts that travel up connected Twitter’s hunt tab. Other apical cryptocurrencies, including Musk’s beloved Dogecoin (DOGE) has not made the chopped for the clip being. 

A screenshot of Twitter’s 24 hr terms illustration of Ether (ETH). Source: Cointelegraph.

Cointelegraph besides recovered that typing successful “$Ethereum,” “Ethereum price” and “ETH price” besides pulls up the terms chart, with equivalent searches besides moving for Bitcoin.

The terms charts besides see a “View connected Robinhood” link  that tin beryllium clicked successful the bottommost near manus corner, suggesting the retail trading level has teamed up with Twitter for this integration.

There, users are brought to Robinhood’s terms illustration for ETH, which provides an further nexus beneath stating “Sign Up to Buy Ethereum.” The aforesaid links are provided for Bitcoin too.

However, nary concern details person ybeen disclosed betwixt Twitter and Robinhood.

Twitter’s terms illustration integration whitethorn arguably pb to much postulation to Robinhood, arsenic #Bitcoin unsocial is tweeted astir 120,000 times per day, according to information from BitInfoCharts.

This fig would apt beryllium overmuch higher if alternate tweet tags specified arsenic Bitcoin, $Bitcoin, BTC and $BTC were included successful the figure.

#Ethereum connected the different manus hoddles astatine astir the 25,000 range.

Related: Crypto fans should get down Elon Musk’s subscription exemplary for Twitter

Earlier this month, rumors began to circulate connected Dec. 4 that Twitter whitethorn make its ain autochthonal cryptocurrency “Twitter Coin” to beryllium utilized for payments connected the platform, which came astir a week aft Musk shared a glimpse into what “Twitter 2.0” whitethorn look similar connected Nov. 27 — which included the imaginable integration of cryptocurrency-based payments connected Twitter.

But Musk’s aboriginal astatine Twitter appears to beryllium astatine the crossroads aft the arguable figure asked Twitter whether helium should “step down arsenic caput of Twitter?” successful a Dec. 19 Twitter canvass — with 57.5 of the 17,502,391 voters polling “Yes.”

Musk aboriginal added that helium “will resign arsenic CEO arsenic soon arsenic I find idiosyncratic foolish capable to instrumentality the job!”