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I have real trouble believing these are connected.

• Finnucane 4y ago
  Yeah, it would suggest that investors make knee-jerk reactions to tweets, without spending a minute to check if it’s real news, and are completely oblivious to what is happening at Twitter. Okay, yeah, I can believe that.
  • mikkergp 4y ago
    I don’t think it’s that I can’t believe it, I just don’t want to… smdh
  • nebula8804 4y ago
    Any chance it is automated systems reacting on information? I always thought that a lot of these hot shot developers working at the big hedge fund firms are writing code that scours the web and other sources and act on that info automatically.
    • AustinDev 4y ago
      If this actually happened, it would be the result of bad software not people reading the tweet and being deceived. A majority of humans with enough money to move a stock to that degree would have known this was obvious parody why would Eli give up the Insulin racket? it makes no sense.
      • Finnucane 4y ago
        It would basically mean, somewhere, some program or person(s) are set to believe that Twitter is a source of actionable financial news, and that this has not been updated in light of recent events. I find that at least plausible.
        • AustinDev 4y ago
          And that those person(s) don't think logically before they act. Why would Eli ever make their product free? It's like apple saying free iPhones to some degree. If the troll tweet was "we're reducing the price to (cost + 30%)" that'd be relatively much more plausible and altruistic.