Robinhood sparked the outrage of its users this week after it throttled their ability to buy shares of GameStop and other red-hot stocks amid …
Robinhood sparked the outrage of its users this week after it throttled their ability to buy shares of GameStop and other red-hot stocks amid a market frenzy. Bitreporter, an online cryptocurrency and financial news website, mapped out that anger using geotagged Twitter data, and unearthed more than 120,000 tweets over the past two days from users venting about the situation via hashtags like #boycottrobinhood, #deleterobinhood, and #cancelrobinhood. The map revealed some interesting trends about who’s behind this week’s wild stock market activity — here’s which states’ Twitter users were the angriest about Robinhood. Twitter users voiced outrage over Robinhood in more than 120,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Bitreporter New York, as well as other large states and those near the financial heart of America, such as Pennsylvania, were unsurprisingly, well-represented — but so were less-populated states like West Virginia, Utah, South Carolina, Hawai’i, and Wyoming. “Another piece of the puzzle is the somewhat populist undertones of all this,” Bitreporter spokesperson Ryan Taylor told Insider.
