StockTwits And SecondMarket Collaborate On Private Companies

Stocktwits and Secondmarket are teaming up to collaborate on the $30 billion market of private companies, writes

Stocktwits curates tweets that are indexed with a "$" sign, such as $XOM for Exxon Mobil

or $MSFT for Microsoft

. Now Stocktwits is incorporating private companies whose stocks trade on Second Market, which is an exchange where private companies stock is traded. For example, Facebook would be $FBOOK, or Tech Crunch would be $TCRH. Second Market is taking these indexed tweets, and integrating them to enhance their own pages. SecondMarket currently tracks about 500 private companies that aren’t public, like Facebook, Zynga and Twitter.