Twitter's Cash Tags: Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), Blackberry (BBRY), Facebook (FB) And Google (GOOG) Are The Most Popular With Nearly 200,000 Postings In August
Twitter and Instagram are two social media sites that have taken the world by storm. But they have their own language that many users, especially new ones, have a hard time understanding.Reuters
Bloomberg ranked U.S. companies based on the number of Twitter postings that contained a company "cash tag" (the $ followed by the company's stock ticker in uppercase letters) using data compiled by Bloomberg Social Velocity Alerts.
Figures for market cap were as of 8/31/13. Criteria used to decide the legitimacy of a Twitter posting included correlation with news from reputable news organizations, number of messages from a curated set of Twitter users, distribution of postings according to users, and distribution of postings according to time of day.
