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

2 points| strongvigilance | 12 years ago |blogs.marketwatch.com

3 comments

jeremysmyth|12 years ago

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

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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