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Was there some trigger or cause for this? Did something happen over the weekend to change investor feelings?

A lot of tech companies are down right now. Twitter isn't the worst, but its a fun target for people.

No, in fact there are also a number of tech companies up right now because they are showing growth. Meanwhile twitter has been flat. The investment community didn't decide to gather around and pick on twitter because it would be fun.

edit: apparently people didn't take too kindly to pointing out that not all tech companies are having a downward trend. Here are tech companies that are up compared to one year ago: $FB, $GOOG, $MSFT, $AAPL, $AMZN

quarterly results.

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