The Ticker
Reports from the final frontier of real-time data.
Market News Feeds for Traders: A Working Guide
Social Media Walls for Events and Venues
The technology is trivial. Almost every social wall failure is a content decision made badly, or not made…
What Is a News Ticker? The Complete Guide
A ticker gives up depth in exchange for continuous presence. That trade has survived paper tape, television and…
Live Sports Ticker: LED Sign or Software?
An LED sign is a better object and a worse tool. Software is cheaper and more flexible. Which…
Stream Overlays for OBS: The Complete Guide
The four overlay types, how browser sources really work, the two ways to get transparency, and what each…
X vs a Bloomberg Terminal: What Each One Is Actually For
A terminal costs about twenty four thousand a year. A feed costs nothing. They are not the same…
Why the X Algorithm Is Bad at Breaking News
The algorithm is good at its job. Its job is keeping you on the platform, which is directly…
How Traders Actually Use X During a Session
Which accounts to follow is the easy half. The harder question is what you do with a feed…
Best Twitter Accounts for Tech: Sources, Not Commentary
In tech the people building the thing post about it directly, often before any publication covers it. Following…
X Lists vs a Ticker: An Honest Comparison
X Lists are free, built in, and solve most of the curation problem. Here is where they stop…
Best Twitter Accounts for Crypto: What to Watch and What to Mute
Crypto news breaks on X and almost nowhere else, on a platform carrying more deliberate noise than any…