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Perhaps you could elaborate a bit more on what's meant by "using the Twitter API to trade stocks".

Create a bot with a set budget which uses a short term gains investment strategy called, "Day Trading". The timing of the purchase and sale of these stocks would be informed by a script written to digest and interpret live twitter feeds around the world and monitor them for key terms and indications that the stock of a particular company will dramatically go up or down.

Whether or not that's reasonable in real-life [1]... learning the Twitter API + doing some sentiment analysis, etc is a good scope for what could be an interesting hackathon project.

You could run the trades on a simulated network or just print out the trades and calculate when/if the bot can beat the market.

1: Much automated trading these days is very high frequency, on the order of milliseconds (https://www.technologyreview.com/s/416805/trading-shares-in-...).

Thank you for your advice.Do u think if you push live trade with the twitter api it will have positive impact i.e anyone can get a stock update provided they subscribe to a trading company of their choice.

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