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Tweets from the top

Financial News turned to Twitter to source our quarterly Views from the Top feature

Financial News turned to Twitter to source our quarterly Views from the Top feature.

We asked the industry for their opinions about the use of social media for trading, following the so-called HackCrash, when hackers hijacked the Associated Press Twitter feed to release a story claiming the White House had been bombed and President Obama was injured. The Tweet caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall nearly 150 points in two minutes, but the market recovered its losses quickly after AP issued a correction.

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