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

Posted by diegolo on Thursday September 17, 2015 @04:41AM
from the blog.twitter.com dept.

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

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Re:Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts... by jbob2000 on Thursday September 17, 2015 @11:56AM (#10234069)

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

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Re:Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts... by seiji on Thursday September 17, 2015 @01:03PM (#10234604)

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

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Re:Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts... by luisdaniel12 on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:10PM (#10234177)

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.

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Re:Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts... by johnymontana on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:20PM (#10234263)

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...

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Re:Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts... by Amorymeltzer on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:29PM (#10234342)

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

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Re:Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts... by chollida1 on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:22PM (#10235166)

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.

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Re:Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts... by encoderer on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:37PM (#10235250)

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

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Re:Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts... by digler999 on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:48PM (#10235308)

Probably the most modern application of FORTRAN to date !

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Re:Twitter and Bloomberg team up to improve financial alerts... by cft on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:21PM (#10234266)

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

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