Been investing in VTI and chill basically, recently got interested in adding some individual stock positions for maybe 10-20% of my portfolio, figured I'd check out where people discuss specific companies so I tried stocktwits since it kept coming up in searches.
The good parts: tons of activity on every ticker, teal time sentiment tracking, easy to find discussions about specific stocks you own or are researching, the bad parts which are way worse: impossible to know who actually knows what they're talking about, so much obvious pump and dump garbage, people posting rocket emojis instead of analysis, zero verification of whether anyone owns what they're recommending, it literally felt like reading YouTube comments.
The volume of content is high but the quality is terrible, what I'm really looking for is a place to discuss individual stocks with people who actually invest long term, I don't need real time updates or thousands of comments. I would rather have 10 thoughtful takes from people with skin in the game than 100 rocket emojis from anonymous accounts, I tried reddit but it's hit or miss depending on the sub. Twitter has some good accounts but also tons of noise.
Is there anything designed for actual investors instead of day traders and meme stock chasers? Or should I just stick to reading 10ks and forget about social platforms entirely?