Some interesting context/speculation from my submission on this yesterday [1]. "The Twitter data stream has been available to high frequency traders since at l

Some interesting context/speculation from my submission on this yesterday [1]. "The Twitter data stream has been available to high frequency traders since at least 2009. That's when a company called StreamBase began to incorporate Twitter in the firm's "complex event processing" service, which is basically a platform that aggregates data from a vast array of sources for hedge funds and investment banks." [2] 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5598632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5598632 2: http://www.businessinsider.com/trading-robots-are-reading-twitter-2013-4 http://www.businessinsider.com/trading-robots-are-reading-tw...