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

Yahoo! Finance: Obama to detail US energy security strategy http://yhoo.it/e4pgdJ

BBC: Japan to scrap stricken reactors http://bbc.in/gyMPmb

NYT: DealBook: More Good Times Ahead for M.&A., Survey Findshttp://nyti.ms/gJnydj

Reuters: Planned layoffs declined in March: Challenger http://dlvr.it/LwYTK

Zerohedge: Fitch says Portugal rating likely to fall further in short term without timely EU-IMF bailout

Bloomberg:I rish Stress Tests May Leave Government in Control of Banks -http://ow.ly/4poBw