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Robinhood is making a social network

The Verge / 3/19/2026

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Key Points

  • Robinhood is beta testing Robinhood Social, a Twitter-like social networking platform for traders, with initial access for 1,000 attendees and plans to expand to 10,000 more in coming weeks.
  • The platform supports profiles, posting about trades, and completing trades from the feed, with early screenshots showing a social-like experience akin to Twitter or Threads.
  • Robinhood intends to add more features during the beta, including news feeds and the ability to execute trades directly from the social feed.
  • The Verge coverage frames the move as a strategic expansion of Robinhood's ecosystem into social/trading interfaces, signaling a broader push into social features for its user base.
An image showing the Robinhood logo on a red and black background

Robinhood is now beta testing a Twitter-like social media platform it calls Robinhood Social. The trading-focused platform was announced last September at the company's HOOD Summit, but it's rolling out to 1,000 people who attended the event and will expand to "an additional 10,000 customers over the coming weeks," according to Robinhood.

On Robinhood Social, which, based on screenshots, looks a lot like Twitter or Threads, users will be able to create a profile, make posts about their trades, and complete trades from their feed. The company is also promising to launch additional features during the beta, including news feeds and "the abili …

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