X stock mentions

How many posts on X carried each ticker's cashtag over a full day. A measure of attention, not approval - and deliberately not part of the sentiment score.

Counted by ChipSentiment. These figures are our own, queried directly against the X API and not taken from a third-party tracker, an aggregator or any other site. Thursday 27 August, a complete New York day, retweets excluded.

The week so far

The six most-posted names, daily. The vertical scale is square-rooted - NVIDIA alone would otherwise flatten every other line onto the axis.

Ranked by posts

Weekdays only. Weekend counts are collected and kept, but not shown - with the market shut they run around half a weekday across the whole board at once, so a Saturday charted beside a Friday would say more about the calendar than about any stock. A dash under "vs prior" means the name had fewer than 25 posts that day, where a percentage would describe a handful of people rather than a change in attention.

Biggest jumps in chatter

Change against the previous day, among names clearing 25 posts. A jump means attention arrived - it says nothing about which direction.

Where attention and price disagree

Each name's rank in the conversation against its rank on the board, among the 31 clearing 25 posts. A gap of five places or more in either direction is listed. This is not a signal - post volume has no relationship with the direction of a day's move - but a disagreement is a question worth asking, and neither column raises it alone.

Loud, but not behaving

Discussed far more heavily than the price action supports.

Behaving, but barely discussed

Scoring well on price and volume while the conversation looks elsewhere.

How to read this

This counts posts, not opinions. A name near the top is being discussed a great deal; whether that discussion is bullish, bearish or sarcastic is not something a count can tell you, and this page does not guess. Retweets are excluded, so a single viral post cannot masquerade as thousands of separate voices, but automated accounts are a real feature of financial chatter on X and they are counted along with everyone else.

The useful comparison is against the sentiment board. Attention and price behaviour frequently disagree, and where they disagree is usually the more interesting question. It is also worth noticing which names sit high here relative to their size - a $15bn company out-posting a $2tn one is telling you something the market capitalisation column never will.

Days are complete New York calendar days, weekends included. That differs from the sentiment history, which counts trading sessions only - X does not close at 4pm on a Friday, so a Saturday is a real day for chatter even though it is not a real day for prices.

Expect the weekend to sag, and read it as normal. With the market shut there are no earnings, no analyst notes and no price action to react to, so Saturday and Sunday run well below the weekdays either side of them - often by half - across the entire board at once. On the chart that shows up as a dip every seventh and eighth point. It is a property of when people post, not a gap in the data and not a collapse in interest. The corollary is that a day-over-day comparison spanning that boundary will move almost every name the same way: Saturday against Friday makes the whole board look like it is falling away, and Monday against Sunday makes it all look like a surge. Neither is news. The comparisons worth attention are the ones where a name breaks from the pattern the rest of the board is following.

Common questions

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Post counts collected by ChipSentiment from the X API. Information only, not investment advice. Social media chatter is not a reliable guide to anything.