Popular online personal finance tool Mint is not only well-known for its array of money management, personal expense tracking, and budgeting tools, but it is also a popular knowledge resource, mostly via its blog and tools such as Financial Fitness. It makes sense, right? Combine information with knowledge and you have a potent financial combination.
Now the Intuit-owned service is launching yet another financial education tool, but this one is through Twitter. The company has just launched Money Tweets, a digest of the most relevant and useful tweets about finance in the Twitterverse.
Money Tweets: Curation, Aggregation, and Trends
The Money Tweets knowledge tool essentially curates and aggregates the top Twitter accounts and tweets about finance. It does this by pulling in tweets in five categories:
- Topics: Curated tweets on different financial subcategories, including retirement, loans, investment, and saving.
- Tweets about Mint.com: All real-time tweets about Mint.com, positive or negative.
- Tweets from Mint.com: A feed of Mint's Twitter account (which, in our estimation, needs to be a lot more active and engaged to justify this category).
- Questions: Mint will ask a question of the day, and any tweets with the #mintqotd hashtag will be pulled in as responses to it.
- Popular: A basic analytics and graphing tool that tracked tweet volume on popular and hot-button finance topics.
Overall, Money Tweets is simple but useful. It's a one-stop shop for anybody interested in receiving money tips, advice, and gems.