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

‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter(blogs.marketwatch.com)

2 points by strongvigilance 12 years ago | 3 comments

jeremysmyth 12 years ago |

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

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

pfortuny 12 years ago |

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

dotcoma 12 years ago |

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