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.
MarketWatch: U.S. personal incomes jump 1% while spending rises 0.2% http://on.mktw.net/gHo7wD7 minutes ago via MarketWatch
Reuters: January air traffic picks up, high oil prices loom: IATA http://dlvr.it/HrHwP10 minutes ago via dlvr.it
MSNBC: JPMorgan fund in talks to buy Twitter stake: report http://on.msnbc.com/eyVc7612 minutes ago via msnbc.com feeds
Yahoo! Finance: Discount service Groupon launches China sitehttp://yhoo.it/eiI7i4about 1 hour ago via bitly
Zerohedge: Saudi Arabia Calms Oil Market, Happy To Add Oman’s 850,000 Bbls/Day Output To Its Own Extra Productionhttp://is.gd/BZWacOabout 1 hour ago via TweetDe
Yahoo! Finance: Growing federal budget deficit is economists’ biggest worry http://yhoo.it/igS2FYabout 1 hour ago via HootSuite
Douglas A. McIntyre