People have been gushing about the value of such a hack, but as a marketer I can tell you that Twitter traffic is pretty close to worthless. I suppose there ar

People have been gushing about the value of such a hack, but as a marketer I can tell you that Twitter traffic is pretty close to worthless. I suppose there are other things you could do, such as manipulating stock prices. But that would take a large amount of capital to take advantage of, which this person may not have had.