Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 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 are most frequently mentioned. It is clear that in this area of social media these tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Together, these financial sites are followed by nearly 1,000,000 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

 

Zerohedge: CPI Prints At 0.1%, Below Expectations Of 0.2%, Lower Compared To Prior; Empire Index At 10.6 Versus Expectations Of 5 http://is.gd/iMUmb

CNN Money: Consumer prices rise a seasonally adjusted 1.1% on an annual basis, the Labor Department says. $$

CNN Money: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year. $$

CNN Money: Apple 2.0: Gene Munster: Verizon will sell 9 million to 15 million iPhones in 2011 http://bit.ly/geNegi $AAPL

Reuters Biz: Time names Mark Zuckerberg 2010 Person of the Year http://dlvr.it/BRPZt

Reuters Biz: Airbus to miss A380 delivery target http://dlvr.it/BR4NG

Reuter Biz: Spain on watch ahead of EU summit http://dlvr.it/BR2RY

MarketWatch: Dynegy leaves door ajar as Icahn offer wins OK http://bit.ly/gOy2dF

Yahoo! Finance: President Obama To Meet With Top CEOs About Economyhttp://yhoo.it/eFf8sd

 

Douglas A. McIntyre

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