‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter

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They programmed the HFT bot with a regex &#x2F;^TWTR&#x2F; and forgot the trailing $...

Talk about the &quot;invisible hand&quot; of the market. ROTFL