So, I don’t mean to sound old or not down with technology, but the SEC is going to prove its not completely worthless by joining Twitter? No thank you, Mary Schapiro. Apparently the decision to “get online” is an effort to remake the agency’s “image” and be “where investors most need it,” which, according to Schapiro, is at SEC Investor Ed, SEC News and SEC Jobs. Bitches, please. How about first you figure out how to read reports entitled “So and So Is A Massive Ponzi Scheme” before offering up links to press releases and sharing that Mar-Schap is “out for drinks with Ruthie!” Having Power Lunch on Twitter is one thing– an annoying thing, since we have to hear about it 389 times per episode, but harmless. This actually worries us. Obviously these people have proven to bring a steep learning curve to the table. Having been duped more than one (million) time(s) before, they’re probably going to be over eager to respond to any and all messages that come their way. How long before they’re getting diversionary, throw-them-off-the-trail Tweets from, I don’t know, this guy like, “Massive Ponzi scheme @72 Cummings Point Road, better get out here and stop us” and buying it hook line and sinker, all the while missing the real scam going down in Chi-town? I say soon, if it hasn’t happened already.
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Just heard Facebook and Twitter are going to join up and provide the perfect app for up and comers in the financial world: TwitBook.
no you’re not alone, twitter sucks ass
Arlen Specter is now a Democrat.
@2
Twitter has (limited) usefulness, its just the fact that the vast majority of people on there are themselves useless, or their use of the service is.
@analyst- hence why people with “steep learning curves” such as the SEC should stay back.
@3 This is awesome news. He’ll get some power back and kick criminal ass!!!!
@3 Yes! He’s the best and will kick some criminal ass on Wall Street!!!
How about the SEC just does it’s fucking job? Don’t try to be hip. Is that the word kids are using today? Everything with the government is if we come up with a website or get on facebook it will cover up for the fact that we are helpless.
I was getting Power Lunch on Twitter, but Sue Herrera ate it.
Nobody on the Cornelia Marie would dare to Twitter. EVER.
Does Carney still operate Dealbreaker’s twitter?
@8- yep.
sorry about the it’s…should be its
@11- Clearly not, since he no longer works here. They’re trying to get me to use it but I don’t really think I have anything else to add that’s not posted here, unless it’s just the random stuff going on up in my head and I don’t think you want in on that.
@14, is there any way to roll the RSS of DB into twitter? I read wsj headlines this way, just nice to have everything centralized for quick scanning.
Keep up the good work, and I do want in on that
@15- yes, I believe they’re doing that, possibly this week.
Once Ashton Kushner beat CNN on twitter, MarSchap just had to be there with the ‘I am a complete waste of oxygen’ crowd.
The SEC is a drag, just abolish it.
@9 LOL she is a beast
@16, thxu
Episode 5 of CNBC/Discovery Channel joint reality show, “Deadliest MBAs”: A Pershing Square MBA runs the Cornelia Marie aground while gazing down at his Blackberry. A Bloomberg installation rep gets seasick installing a terminal in the galley of the Northwestern. SAC MBAs become stressed that their skirts won’t fit in a Gumby suit. The Time Bandit’s IT guy demands Dealbreaker be “blocked”. Sig gets tired of the quants hanging around the trading floor’s vending machine and has Moi hang a gutted codfish in it. Phil unconsciously breaks wind in the back office and blames it on the basis traders. As Air Force One flies by, the Greenhorns stand at attention but the bankers run for their lives.
The insanity of Tess Devlin’s mind would be followed in any way, shape, or form. I would even be okay with her twitter being broadcasted on the back end of a plane headed straight towards my building.
Honest injun.
I’m down with following 20, too.
@10 punishment is they lock you in a crab pot and let the crane shake you around if they discover you using twitter is what i hear
They, like all branches of the government, have a predilection for businesses that don’t make money.
@20 well played
Regarding the SEC / Twitter thing, like everything else in our goverment its form over substance.
This all makes sense now…at first I thought they were just incompetent, now it’s clear that the SEC is being run by the Mean Girls. OMG DID YOU SEE BM’S PONZI? TOTS THE BIGGEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN…LOL!!
@26- “totes” not “tots”
@27 sorry my annoying high school lingo is a little rusty.
do you really think steve cohen has the balls, re: “diversionary, throw-them-off-the-trail Tweets from, I don’t know, this guy like, “Massive Ponzi scheme @72 Cummings Point Road, better get out here and stop us”"
goddamn twitter is everywhere. aren’t facebook updates the exact same thing but without the unnecessary ability to search for updates from people you do not know in any way?
@29- who would win a mud wrestling match– schapiro or SC?
What’s going on in Chicago?
@32- wouldnt you like to know.
@32- it’s either a reference to KG or SAC’s new chicago office or a combination of the two.
what’s going on with KG?
Is twitter what a bunch of twits do?
“Ah, welcome to Chicago. This town smells like a whorehouse at low tide.”
-Patrolman Jimmy Malone