The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Watch (8/5/2010) Barclays Up, Google & Verizon Marry

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Jan 30, 10:17AM EST · Published Aug 5, 8:09AM EDT

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Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 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.

FT: MPC opts to leave policy unchanged: The Bank of England has voted to leave monetary policy unchanged with interes… http://bit.ly/dAOXfN

MarketWatch: Bank of England keeps rates on hold as expected, maintains bond-buying program http://on.mktw.net/9zcVIv

FT: Barclays rises 44% to £3.95bn in first half: Banking group’s pre-tax profit for the first six months of 2010 were … http://bit.ly/byKM8p

Reuters Biz: Greece passes key EU/IMF test but long road ahead http://link.reuters.com/naf53n

Reuters Biz: Verizon and Google reach Internet traffic deal: sources http://link.reuters.com/byd53n

CNN Money: Intel settles antitrust suit with wrist slap http://bit.ly/b0WNX9

CNN Money: Time Inc. CEO to step down http://bit.ly/9GfO2y

WSJ: Barclays posts 29% rise in first-half net profit as impairment charges drop. http://wsj.com

Yahoo! Finance: News Corp posts 4th-quarter profit, reversing loss; revenue and outlook exceed expectations http://yhoo.it/bHkPPG $$ #earnings $NWSA

Douglas A. McIntyre

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.