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Old 04-23-2013, 01:16 PM   #1
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Somebody's going to jail. AP twitter account hacked
My apologies if this was already posted. Looked, did not see it.

The AP twitter account got hacked and someone tweeted that there were explosions in the White House and that Obama had been injured. Stock market dropped either 128 or 145 points or more than 150 (depending on the source you read) in seconds. Came back up just as quick once AP said they had been hacked.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-...googlenews_wsj

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A false tweet briefly sent financial markets veering on Tuesday, underscoring technology's role in tightly linking global markets and highlighting the potential pitfalls of that reliance on technology.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and crude-oil briefly plunged Tuesday afternoon and U.S. Treasury bonds prices soared, after a tweet from the Associated Press's Twitter account claimed that there were two explosions in the White House and that President Barack Obama had been injured.

Markets quickly swung back after the Associated Press said on its corporate website that its account had been hacked. The White House confirmed there had been no incident.

The Dow industrials dropped 145 points between 1:08 p.m. EDT and 1:10 p.m., following the erroneous tweet. Stocks soon recovered, regaining broad gains that put the major benchmarks on track for a third day of gains.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...t-white-house/

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Through a Twitter account, a group called the Syrian Electronic Army took credit for the attack.
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Old 04-23-2013, 01:17 PM   #2
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Oh, maybe time to buy some stocks...
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Old 04-23-2013, 01:27 PM   #3
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Old 04-23-2013, 01:29 PM   #4
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lol why in the fuck would the stock market drop?!

What a rigged system
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Old 04-23-2013, 01:35 PM   #5
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Old 04-23-2013, 01:37 PM   #6
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lol why in the fuck would the stock market drop?!

What a rigged system
Because, my deluded little friend, in this day and age information spreads at the speed of light and it is often erroneous.

Which is why more rational people try to be patient and wait till facts are clear before they take action based upon that information.

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Old 04-23-2013, 02:03 PM   #7
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Another way to manipulate price of bitcoins
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Old 04-23-2013, 03:12 PM   #8
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Because, my deluded little friend, in this day and age information spreads at the speed of light and it is often erroneous.

Which is why more rational people try to be patient and wait till facts are clear before they take action based upon that information.

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Apparently Wall Street shit their pants first.
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Apparently Wall Street shit their pants first.
I said rational people. If you have ever been to a Wall Street area bar then you know that the people of Wall Street do not fit that description.

But, from what I heard on the news it was mainly computer trades that caused the drop. They said that there are programs that scan headlines for keywords/phrases and takes automatic action. I would not have thought that they would have shit at that level of automation. If they do, then it is not too smart.

One reporter commented about a 140 character tweet causing this much havoc across the world.

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I said rational people. If you have ever been to a Wall Street area bar then you know that the people of Wall Street do not fit that description.

But, from what I heard on the news it was mainly computer trades that caused the drop. They said that there are programs that scan headlines for keywords/phrases and takes automatic action. I would not have thought that they would have shit at that level of automation. If they do, then it is not too smart.

One reporter commented about a 140 character tweet causing this much havoc across the world.

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up there with the russian dead man switch

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I said rational people. If you have ever been to a Wall Street area bar then you know that the people of Wall Street do not fit that description.

But, from what I heard on the news it was mainly computer trades that caused the drop. They said that there are programs that scan headlines for keywords/phrases and takes automatic action. I would not have thought that they would have shit at that level of automation. If they do, then it is not too smart.

One reporter commented about a 140 character tweet causing this much havoc across the world.

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everyone who bought and sold in that time period,will be checked out 10 ways from centre
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Old 04-25-2013, 04:34 PM   #15
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or it really happened and there has been a cover up
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Old 04-25-2013, 06:36 PM   #17
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That’s unbelievable. Fake twitter posts can have so much power? They always try to improve politics…
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