Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networds in the world. All major media companies have a presence on Twitter and some are followed by over one million Twitter users.
24/7 Wall St. will look at the Twitter posts at Reuters Biz, WSJ, Financial Times, CNN Money, MarketWatch, CNBC, and 24/7 Wall St. each day to see which stocks are most frequently mentioned. It is clear that in this area of social media these tweet are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. These financial sites are followed by a combined 625,000 Twitter users which makes them a sizeable sample of Wall St.’s interests. In some cases, we will publish the actual tweets from the sites.
Each tweet has the source and the tweet itself.
Today’s stocks and news: Fedex (FDX), Teva (TEVA), EBAY (EBAY), Google (GOOG), Barnes & Noble (BKS)
MarketWatch: FedEx raises full-year profit outlook on ‘improving global economy’ http://on.mktw.net/aL1XWI
MarketWatch: Teva to acquire Ratiopharm, Germany’s No. 2 generics drugmaker http://on.mktw.net/aiFeYr
24/7 Wall St.: PayPal Launches New Send Money 2.0 App for iPhone: PayPal has unveiled a new Send Money application for iPhone. V… http://bit.ly/aDMo7A
CNN Money: Troubled Toyota not so bad, J.D. Power says http://bit.ly/bNAsbC
24/7 Wall St.: Google Prepares To Become Latest Failure In Taking On The American Living Room http://bit.ly/d4iAWU
CNBC: Cramer’s Top 10 Emerging-Market Stocks -> http://bit.ly/cRzuez #investingideas #stockmarket
FT: Germany pushes UK on hedge fund rules: Angela Merkel has challenged Gordon Brown to drop his objections to Europe… http://bit.ly/9Icvv4
Reuters Biz: Barnes & Noble names new chief executive http://link.reuters.com/kex34j
Reuters Biz: China Mobile posts forecast-beating profit http://link.reuters.com/cas34j
Douglas A. McIntyre
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