http://shinygreenbutton.com/?p=494 blog Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:25:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://shinygreenbutton.com/?p=494&cpage=1#comment-142 Pamela Fiehn Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:17:54 +0000 http://shinygreenbutton.com/?p=494#comment-142 In my monthly OPB member's guide, the inside cover page was devoted to reasons why one should not rely on blogs, tweets, etc. for news and should continue to seek out reputable news sources, like NPR and the New York Times. Fact checkers, yes! So under-rated and yet so crucial. I can see StockTwits (a very bad name, BTW) as an interesting feed for psychologists, anthropolgists and others who want to understand social media's impact on the stock market, but not so helpful for me to grow my financial assets. In my monthly OPB member’s guide, the inside cover page was devoted to reasons why one should not rely on blogs, tweets, etc. for news and should continue to seek out reputable news sources, like NPR and the New York Times. Fact checkers, yes! So under-rated and yet so crucial. I can see StockTwits (a very bad name, BTW) as an interesting feed for psychologists, anthropolgists and others who want to understand social media’s impact on the stock market, but not so helpful for me to grow my financial assets.

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