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‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter (blogs.marketwatch.com)
2 points by strongvigilance 4613 days ago
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They programmed the HFT bot with a regex /^TWTR/ and forgot the trailing $...
Talk about the "invisible hand" of the market. ROTFL