Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts with Twitter data

[diegolo]

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/bloomberg-twitter-data

[_1qd4]

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

[seiji → _1qd4]

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

[luisdaniel12 → _1qd4]

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 → luisdaniel12]

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 → luisdaniel12]

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

[chollida1]

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]

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]

Probably the most modern application of FORTRAN to date !

[cft]

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