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.
FT: Ford profit surges 22% in first quarter: Ford Motor reported first-quarter earnings of $2.55bn, its highest p… http://on.ft.com/ecYneD
BBC: Greek deficit worse than thought http://bbc.in/eHv07n
MSNBC: States face growing pension gaps http://on.msnbc.com/eOPNXM
Yahoo! Finance: Coca-Cola profit falls slightly short http://yhoo.it/fdndi7 $KO
USA Today: Ford posts best quarterly performance since ’98 with $2.6B profit http://usat.ly/e7ZB2X
Reuters: Spanish borrowing costs jump; Greek debt shunned http://reut.rs/fLlqU0
BBC: Ford sees best profit in 13 years http://bbc.in/gaBZy3
FT: Sony launches tablets to rival iPad: Japanese electronics group previews a 9-inch and 5-inch device available… http://on.ft.com/dJuRF7
Douglas A. McIntyre
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