Twitter Drives Hot Stock Strategy
A hedge fund is making lots of money using a new program that mines Twitter to determine emotions among the population to help decide buying and selling strategies. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Johan Bollen, the computer scientist at Indiana University who came up with the program.
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