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Especially because the effect of Trump's tweets has rapidly shifted. His Boeing tweet hurt their stock price considerably. But just a few weeks later, his Nor
by michaelchisari 10y ago
Especially because the effect of Trump's tweets has rapidly shifted. His Boeing tweet hurt their stock price considerably. But just a few weeks later, his Nordstrom tweet helped quite a bit.
I guess you could weigh it against his favorability polling, but you're right, this is all just guesswork masquerading as science.
- taco_emoji 10y agoThose are two very different companies, though. It's not like the average consumer can make any sort of buying decision that will affect an aerospace company, but they can certainly patronize or boycott a department store. Plus Boeing likely does a lot of business with the federal government which Trump is now head of, while retail outlets are highly unlikely to be directly affected by anything a President does.
- michaelchisari 10y agoThat's true, which means any algorithm would also have to take the nature of the company being tweeted about into consideration.