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
WSJ: Barnes & Noble Shares Soar As Ackman Lifts Sale Hopes http://bit.ly/fnJ1K5
CNN Money: Pfizer CEO leaves ‘extremely demanding’ job http://bit.ly/iinRx3
Reuters Biz: Kraft seeks court injunction in Starbucks spat http://dlvr.it/9qhgf
Reuters Biz: Kellogg CEO retires; COO to replace him http://dlvr.it/9qgVd
Reuters Biz: Moody’s cuts Hungary close to junk, warns of riskshttp://dlvr.it/9qK0Q
MarketWatch: Pfizer names Ian Read as chief executive officerhttp://on.mktw.net/dXKxLU
Yahoo! Finance: Facebook profile overhaul revamps personal pageshttp://yhoo.it/eeZrzJ
Douglas A. McIntyre