Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts with Twitter data (blog.twitter.com)

52 points by diegolo 11y ago ↗ HN

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jbob2000 11y ago ↗

Now I'm waiting for someone to write a script that spams fake tweets to alter a stock's price.

It's for people to be alerted. So humans still have to decide whether they act on the intel. I don't think the HFTA's are acting on this.

johnymontana 11y ago ↗

Well it is clear there is already automated trading going on based on Twitter data: http://www.rt.com/news/syrian-electronic-army-ap-twitter-349...

Amorymeltzer 11y ago ↗

Already happening: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitter-trading-influence-l...

seiji 11y ago ↗

Automatic bot traders caused Tesla stock to move when Tesla made an April Fool's post.

cft 11y ago ↗

That still will not support $18bn market cap unfortunately.

chollida1 11y ago ↗

I'm not sure this is actually news worthy. Bloomberg has already had alot of twitter integration.

You can already search twitter from the terminal via TWTR, use NH TWT to get a fire hose of twitter "news", use TWEE to get a curated feed of selected tweets.

And bloomberg has been doing sentiment analysis on news feeds for a while now. If you have $10,000/month you can get the machine ingestable version.

encoderer 11y ago ↗

Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Zillow and avid tweeter, had some interesting commentary on this recently:

"I've had huge mutual fund managers who are shareholders of $Z $ZG ask me about some inane tweets that show up on bloomberg"

https://twitter.com/spencerrascoff

digler999 11y ago ↗

Probably the most modern application of FORTRAN to date !