TweetTrader.net featured on Reuters Insider TV

TweetTrader.net was recently featured on Reuters Insider, a new TV experience from Reuters and 150+ trusted content partners and targeted specifically at financial professionals.

You can watch the interview and related broadcasts featuring TweetTrader.net here.

TweetTrader on Air

TweetTrader.net was recently featured in a radio report on the German network of Bayerischer Rundfunk. You can listen to it here.

Worldwide TweetTrader.net press coverage

A TweetTrader.net press release has recently generated quite some buzz in the international press.

Twitter predicts future of stocks  

Twitter may not yet have found a way to make money for itself but it is doing a good job of generating cash for its users, research suggests. Read more.

Twitter predicts performance of individual stocks

The information in tweets captured market movements fairly quickly and strong buy signals on Twitter are followed by abnormal returns from that stock the following day. Read more.

All Atwitter With Investment Tips

Just how valuable is a tweet? Some people believe that by harnessing and analyzing the flow from all tweets, they will be able to predict future stock prices. That would be valuable indeed. A graduate student at the Technische Universität München, has launched TweetTrader.net, a Website that uses tweets to size up market sentiment on particular stocks. Read more.

The link between tweets and stock market

Wealth-management companies take note: A team in Germany has found that investors following stock-market tweets showed average returns of 15 per cent. And now this crowd knowledge can be tapped by any investor with a Twitter account. Read more.

Twitter Now a Source for Bernie Madoff-ish Investment Returns

Following Twitter is almost as good as taking dedicated analysts' advice when it comes to earning profits. Read more. 

Twitter predicts performance of individual stocks

Now economists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have launched a website that predicts individual stock trends based on Twitter chatter. Read more.

Twitter analysis predicts stock prices a day ahead

Playing the stock market just got a little easier, thanks to economists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) who have developed a website that predicts individual stock trends. Read more.

Who needs a broker? Twitter comment analysis predicts great investments

German economists who used machine intelligence to analyze tweets about stocks say the advice shared among Twitter members can accurately predicts what the market will do a day ahead of time. Read more.  

Next to these examples, coverage included countries around the world including Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, and many more.

TweetTrader.net making waves in Brazil

TweetTrader.net was recently featured by Brasil Econômico, one of Brazil's leading business newspapers with a circulation of 50,000. It covers most editorial subjects from an economic and business point of view. The story illustrates that, while stock microblogging is certainly no money-making machine, it provides valuable signals to interested investors.

TweetTrader.net "meeting" Eric Schmidt

Next to Eric Schmidt (Google), Sean Parker (Facebook) and Lars Hinrichs (XING), TweetTrader.net was represented at DLD11.

DLD (Digital - Life - Design) is a global conference network on innovation, digital media, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and investors for crossover conversation and inspiration.

TweetTrader Sentiment Reflecting News on Steve Jobs' Leave from Apple

On January 17th, 2011, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking leave of absence from the company's day-to-day operations because of a medical condition, according to a letter Jobs sent to Apple employees. As a result, the stock has plummeted. The case is a good example of how TweetTrader.net instantly reflects market developments, often even before it hits major news wires. As you can see, TweetTrader.net Sentiment on $AAPL was down almost 30% and people were talking mostly about issues related to Corporate Governance (which, according to our research, is largely CEO-related) and Operations.

TweetTrader research featured in the New York Times

The New York Times (online edition) Freakonomics blog has recently featured results from our research on stock microblogging.

Research on stock microblogs featured at ICWSM

TweetTrader.net and the related research got some attention at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), which took place in Washington this May. At the time, the working title for the precursor to TweetTrader.net was stockTUitter.com, to pay hommage to the TU School of Management. Media consultant Koki Smith featured the interview and further detail regarding our research on her blog.