Matt Holtzman, Author at Social Alpha

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TWTR Tweets Tell the Tale Getting Ahead of a Story Using Social Media Analytics

May 4, 2015 /0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Matt Holtzman

At about 3:07 PM EDT on April 28, financial data firm Selerity sent out a tweet disclosing that Twitter would miss their earnings projections: This in itself isn’t extraordinary, but the problem was that the earnings call wasn’t supposed to take place for about another hour. Rumors swirled that this information had somehow been “leaked” […]

Capitalizing on Rumors in Social Media

January 27, 2015 /0 Comments/in Social Indicator Analysis /by Matt Holtzman

Using social media as a source of breaking news has many advantages, but one that made itself readily apparent on Sunday was the ability to react to rumors. Whereas traditional news channels tend to focus on substantiated, double- and triple-fact-checked stories that are generated from official press conferences and earning reports, social media presents no […]