The stock results aggregator works much like the hashtag feature on Twitter.

When tweeting about a company stock, users can place a dollar sign in front of the ticker symbol to make it a hyperlink that will send users who click on it to Twitter search results for that stock.

The social media company made the announcement Monday night via its

and gave the example of General Electric appearing as $GE to generate search results.

Twitter users are calling the new hashtag-like feature the "cashtag," but for those familiar with Twitter, the company's new search function strongly resembles an application that already exists on the Twitter platform called StockTwits.