‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter (blogs.marketwatch.com)

2 points by strongvigilance 12y ago ↗ HN

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dotcoma 12y ago ↗

Talk about the "invisible hand" of the market. ROTFL

jeremysmyth 12y ago ↗

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pfortuny 12y ago ↗

They programmed the HFT bot with a regex /^TWTR/ and forgot the trailing $...