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I didn't get your point. Of course the tweet isn't worth a damn, but the information is. Just like newspaper as you said.

But, since he chose Tweeter to disclose those news, his tweet, in fact, is worth $12.5B

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Just adding another thing: what's to be contested in this article is if the tweet was the only thing that leveraged Apple's stocks to those values. Of course it may have been replicated everywhere, but was really just those few characters that generated that boom?

A well known investor saying, "I bought a lot of AAPL because I think it's undervalued," caused the boom.

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