Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, 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 include Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS), General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS), Deustche Bank (NYSE: DB), DeVry Inc (NYSE: DV), and Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM).
CNNMoney CNNMoney Citi wows Street with $4.4 billion profit http://bit.ly/9wnskT
Reuters Biz: Reuters_Biz Lilly profit tops views, but reform hits results http://link.reuters.com/fag48j
Reuters Biz: Reuters_Biz Economic blow to airlines could surpass Sept. 11: EU http://link.reuters.com/xag48j
NYTimes: nytimes NYT NEWS ALERT: Citigroup Reports Net Income of $4.4 Billion in First Quarter
MarketWatch: Citigroup earns $4.4 million in first quarter, highest since second quarter 2007 http://on.mktw.net/aYTKMr
MarketWatch: European airline stocks plunge in early trade Monday http://on.mktw.net/cAvq8F
CNN Money Apple 2.0: How big was Apple’s second quarter? http://bit.ly/a5m7bc $AAPL
Douglas A. McIntyre
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