Twitter Can Help Predict Stock Market Movements: Study

Twitter is more than just a platform to air your views on various issues and events. It can also give you a fairly good idea of the stock market movements, says a new study. The latest study by the European Central Bank (ECB) endorses previous findings that said as much. The researchers crunched over 310,000 tweets between 2010 and 2012 containing the words "bullish" or "bearish" - as these are generally used in relation to what investors think about future market movements, London-based

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Twitter to Celebrate User Birthdays With Ads and Balloons

If it is your birthday, Twitter will not only make sure that you get happy birthday messages but also animated balloons in your Twitter handle.The micro-blogging site has introduced an option to set your date of birth in its settings menu that will appear on your profile page. "Starting today (July 6), you will be able to show your birthday on your Twitter profile," a Twitter blog post read. To add your birth date to your Twitter profile, choose the "Edit profile" option on Twitter.com. Your

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Twitter To Remove the 140 Character Limit From Direct Messages Starting Next Month

Twitter, as we all know, places a 140-character limit on all tweets. The same limit also applies to Direct Messages (DMs). However, that was until now, as the company has announced that it’s removing the 140-character limit in DMs starting next month.

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