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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Watch 3.24

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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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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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