The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Watch (3/23)

Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than 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.

Reuters Biz: No trademark infringement by Google: EU court http://link.reuters.com/had84j

Reuters Biz: Zale considers financing deal with Sun Capital: report http://link.reuters.com/bet74j

CNBC: Google Tries a Route Around Chinese Web Censorship http://cnbc.com/id/35988728 $GOOG #China #Internet #Technology #InformationTechnology

FT: Time Warner in $1.5bn bid for MGM: Time Warner will bid $1.5bn (£993m) in what is expected to be an all-cash offer… http://bit.ly/b2gdcK

FT: US pay tsar in new review of bank bonuses: Ken Feinberg, the special master for pay in Barack Obama’s administrati… http://bit.ly/cvigEq

FT: Google ends censorship of China site: Google carried through on its promise to end censorship of its local Chinese… http://bit.ly/aiIaT1

MarketWatch: Google has stopped censoring search results in China http://on.mktw.net/aXNoF1

CNN Money: Jones Soda: Is a bidding war brewing? http://bit.ly/bCCZth

CNN Money: Apple 2.0: For sale: A million-dollar iPad address http://bit.ly/b58HR3 $AAPL

Douglas A. McIntyre