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.
24/7 Wall St.: AppleInvestor Motion Control: A Powder Keg in the Mobile Patent War? [Digital Daily]: Here’s a potentially noteworthy development… http://bit.ly/cGBzHj
CNBC: Tablet Wars: The 12 Biggest #iPad Rivals -> http://bit.ly/9nfWXw
CNNMoney: 3 lessons for investing overseas http://bit.ly/azF0wl
CNNMoney: Is Sarbanes-Oxley a failure? http://bit.ly/9L5XPV
Fortune: Did CVS Caremark abuse its clout? http://bit.ly/bP3Qih
BusinessWeek: Businesses Want Apple’s iPad, Too http://bit.ly/aWH1vA
BusinessWeek: Baidu Rating Raised by Samsung Securities on Google Withdrawal http://bit.ly/d0utjv
BusinessWeek: China Unicom Reports 2009 Net Profit 9.56 Billion Yuan http://bit.ly/a3BWB3
MarketWatch: Fitch Ratings downgrades Portugal to ‘AA-‘ from ‘AA’ http://on.mktw.net/cA7cNZ
MarketWatch: Germany and France back IMF aid to Greece: report http://on.mktw.net/9UaUGJ
FT; Daimler charged under US bribery laws: German carmaker has been entangled in a large bribery scandal since 2004, w… http://bit.ly/aVHggb
Douglas A. McIntyre
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