S&P and Twitter Team on Stock Index Based on Tweet Sentiment

S&P and Twitter Team on Stock Index Based on Tweet Sentiment
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S&P Dow Jones Indices has teamed with Twitter on a new endeavor that will monitor tweets to score how social media denizens feel about publicly traded companies.

What Happened

The new S&P 500 Twitter Sentiment Index Series consists of two indices:

The S&P 500 Twitter Sentiment Index, which measures the performance of 200 S&P 500 constituents with the highest sentiment scores.