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It's the old stock scam! Someone needs to create 2048 twitter accounts (AAPL0001, AAPL0002, etc), then make half say "AAPL closes UP today!", the other half say "Down".

Delete the incorrect accounts the next day and repeat for the next 7 days... You'll have one account left at the end, but it'll be exactly right.

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Or you can just post both outcomes each day, then go back and delete the incorrect one. 14 days later you've got a "perfect track record."

Oh true, I forgot this was twitter.

In this case they have only one Twitter account but they delete old posts and start over.

Predicted market correct last 5 days in row https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6535057

Correct, I only have that one account. You can look at the dates on the tweets. They are indeed from the same time as my previous post for 5 days in a row. The only way i could dupe users is by posting both directions and deleting the incorrect one after the end of the trading day. Of course, I'm not doing that.

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