Monitoring how Twitter users are feeling can predict the stk mkt 3 days in advance

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The general mood among Twitter users can predict the rise and fall of the stock market almost a week in advance, a new study has found.

A computer scientist in the US has discovered that the correlation between the Dow Jones and the collective public mood was almost 90 per cent accurate.

The link raises the startling possibility that stockbrokers may one day be able to make bets on the stock market based purely on how people are feeling on Twitter and blogs.

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[Lost Soul]

Amazing how a bunch a teenagers or twenty-something can influence the world because of the useless babble they twit about.