Description:  If you think tweets are worthless, you’re wrong. A professor has developed a program that uses tweets to predict where markets are headed.

Source: CNNMoney.com – video report

Date: 02/21/2012

Link:  http://money.cnn.com/video/markets/2012/02/20/mkts_twitter_markets.cnnmoney/

Questions for discussion:

• Describe the basis for the predictive model.
• Why do you think it makes sense to some analysts?
• How does it resemble other technical tools?
• Would you have faith in its predictive value?