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‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter
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strongvigilance
over 11 years ago
3 comments
jeremysmyth
over 11 years ago
Previous post: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6497250" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6497250</a><p>Previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498983" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498983</a>
pfortuny
over 11 years ago
They programmed the HFT bot with a regex /^TWTR/ and forgot the trailing $...
dotcoma
over 11 years ago
Talk about the "invisible hand" of the market. ROTFL