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.

Among the daily top 10 trending  symbols on stock twitter aggregator StockTwits are Oracle (ORCL), Best Buy (BBY), AIG (AIG), LULU, Amazon (AMZN), and JMBA.

Each line below represents one tweet.

Reuters Biz: RadioShack evaluating strategic options: report http://link.reuters.com/quh45j

Reuters Biz: GM expects to repay $1 billion loan to Treasury: report http://link.reuters.com/quc45j

CNBC: Frustrating Quarter Again For Short-Sellers as ‘Nothing’ Goes Down -> http://bit.ly/cbuhST #stockmarket

MarketWatch: Bauer bets big on luxury, green transportation http://bit.ly/adY2nZ

FT: Oracle boosted by new licence sales: Oracle said that it had seen a rebound in a key measure of new software licen… http://bit.ly/bawA6i

Douglas A. McIntyre

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