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.

 

MSNBC: Sbarro filing for bankruptcy protectionhttp://on.msnbc.com/g53MLl

WSJ: Pizza chain Sbarro’s files for bankruptcy protectionhttp://bit.ly/f6P1HK #sbarro

WSJ: Pfizer Sells Capsugel Unit for $2.4 Billionhttp://on.wsj.com/gGu5Lz

MSNBC: McDonald’s wants to fill 50,000 openingshttp://on.msnbc.com/h0EFQ2

WSJ: Deal Journal: It’s Official: Sbarro Files for Bankruptcy http://bit.ly/fQKO6L

CNN: McDonald’s to hire 50,000 workers – in 1 dayhttp://bit.ly/es9qDH RT @LaMonicaBuzz: Do you want fries & a W-2 with that? $MCD big job push

Douglas A. McIntyre

 

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