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‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter

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‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter

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Post by strongvigilance » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 12:49 PM UTC

‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter
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Post by dotcoma » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 1:04 PM UTC

Talk about the "invisible hand" of the market. ROTFL

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Post by jeremysmyth » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 1:25 PM UTC

Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6497250

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498983

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Post by pfortuny » Fri, Nov 08, 2013, 1:28 PM UTC

They programmed the HFT bot with a regex /^TWTR/ and forgot the trailing $...

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