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Now I'm waiting for someone to write a script that spams fake tweets to alter a stock's price.

Automatic bot traders caused Tesla stock to move when Tesla made an April Fool's post.

It's for people to be alerted. So humans still have to decide whether they act on the intel. I don't think the HFTA's are acting on this.

Well it is clear there is already automated trading going on based on Twitter data: http://www.rt.com/news/syrian-electronic-army-ap-twitter-349...