RSS feed@MarioDraghiECB — or not
The financial twittersphere was abuzz on Tuesday over an odd new user — one @MarioDraghiECB:
‘Real tragedy’ — golly. It would be news to markets if the European Central Bank president was firing off thoughts like that from his “Official Twitter Account”.
Celebrity knife catching with Lord Sugar
In the next episode Donald Trump backs up the truck and buys BofA.
Further further reading
For the commute home, or while marking your over/under on tomorrow’s payrolls number,
- Banks’ litigation losses in tabular form.
- 200 years of treasuries.
- PE conference attendees say that PE firms add value some of the time.
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Taleb explains his tweets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, of Black Swan fame, doesn’t just tweet on Twitter.
He now tweets the explanations for his Twitter tweets on Twitter.
So if the below Friday tweet left you in a confused state:
Davos time!
The great, the good and the simply pompous of finance have been gathering in Davos, Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum on Tuesday.
Lucky for us — the great uninvited — the rise in social media means we too can feel part of the buzz and economic hot air conjecture.
Twitter worth $7.14m per character
Twitter is set to secure a $1bn valuation before it earns its first substantial revenues, after the micro-blogging site raised $100m in new funding. Insight Venture Partners, the New York VC firm, is leading a consortium of new and existing investors in the fast-growing communications network.
“When it comes to valuation, making money is a real obstacle”
Twitter generated yet more media attention on Thursday, as the WSJ’s Deal Journal blog broke news of a fresh-round of fundraising that values the microblogging service at around $1bn.
We shan’t add to the ink and pixels spilt on that particular venture.
Twitter, the new Reuters witness
Yeah, we know, glass houses. But we couldn’t help noticing the following Reuters headline on Thursday:
RTRS-SOME GOOGLE GMAIL USERS REPORT TECHNICAL PROBLEMS ACCESSING CONTACTS – REUTERS WITNESSES,
Funding to boost Twitter, report
Twitter is closing a round of funding that will value the company known for its 140-character, blog comments at $1bn, according to tech news site TechCrunch, reports Reuters. The company will raise around $50m after a February round of funding led by Benchmark capital valued Twitter at around $250m,
Twitter, the first casualty of war?
Twitter’s nearly day-long outage on Thursday has been put down to a “denial of service” attack by its operators.
However, that hasn’t stopped people from speculating who was behind it. The FT, for one,
Twitter hit by cyber-attack
What might have been no more than a teenage prank knocked Twitter, the fast-growing internet communications service, offline for more than two hours on Thursdady. The micro-blogging firm, whose service allows text and web posting of messages of 140 characters or less,
A Tweak?
Twitter on Wednesday fell foul of a potential security weakness that lies at the heart of “cloud”, or internet-based, software applications, leading to the leak of a raft of internal documents from the internet start-up.
Twitbore
To our shame, several of us here at FT Alphaville are quite keen on Twitter. Now at least, we have a credible reason to be:
BA LIBOR: the world’s most important number now tweets daily
That’s right,
Twittering panic
Twanic?
Guatemalan Twitter user Jean Anleu – “Jeanfer” – has been arrested by police for inciting financial panic.
Specifically, for suggesting in the below pictured tweet that people should start taking their money out of Guatemalan bank Banrural.
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Twitter fail on Twitter Fall at the Telegraph – #Telegraphfail?
They love Twitter at the Telegraph. Editor Will Lewis is was an enthusiastic tweeter.
Accordingly, editorial underlings are also mad for it.
Anyway, what with the UK budget coming up, presumably some tech-savvy bods over in Victoria thought they should be all web 2.0 and create a Twitter Fall – that is,
Twitters from Threadneedle street
A 21st century anti-capitalist/poverty/climate change/protest calls for 21st century coverage. Introducing mass professional and citizen reportage from the scene via Twitter.
Here some highlights of the day so far:
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