The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 3.31

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 trending  symbols on stock twitter aggregator StockTwits are RIM (RIMM), Apple (AAPL), Goldman Sachs (GS), Verizon (VZ), and Amazon (AMZN).

CNBC: Investors Bullish on iPhone for Verizon -> http://bit.ly/brUyvM #tech #iphone #verizon

CNN Money: J.P. Morgan: Bulls vs. bears http://bit.ly/bK91p7

FT: Primerica spin-off set to bolster Citigroup: Citigroup will close a chapter in its troubled history with the spin-… http://bit.ly/awYjU6

FT: Google blames China for blocked searches: Google shifted the blame for wide-spread unavailability of its search se… http://bit.ly/ccKDbJ

MarketWatch: ADP private-sector employment shows drop of 23,000 for March, weaker than projected http://on.mktw.net/dbC39g

Douglas A. McIntyre