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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Watch (7/30/2010): China Falls Apart, Blackberry Troubles

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. It raises the question of whether there is wisdom in crowds.

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.

FT: Chinese data add to global recovery fears: The world’s economic rebound continues to sputter, with news of slowing… http://bit.ly/cwJZCI

FT: UAE to suspend BlackBerry services: The United Arab Emirates said it would suspend BlackBerry mobile communication… http://bit.ly/aYAnze

CNN Money: Apple 2.0: With iPad, Apple is No. 3 in portables http://bit.ly/d2AnVe $AAPL

Reuters Biz: BP’s well plug nears, Dudley to visit Russia http://link.reuters.com/mux72n

MarketWatch: China’s manufacturing sees first contraction since March 2009, HSBC survey shows http://on.mktw.net/bG3mr9

Yahoo! Finance: ‘Inception’ outclasses ‘Dinner for Schmucks’ at box office with $27.5M weekend http://yhoo.it/9LuJjG

DailyFinance: AT&T and Verizon to Take on Mastercard and Visa http://bit.ly/aaMrFJ

Douglas A. McIntyre

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