TweetTrader.net: Leveraging Crowd Wisdom in a Stock Microblogging Forum

TweetTrader.net is a stock microblogging forum that leverages the wisdom of crowds to aggregate the information contained in stock-related tweets. Based on insights from academic research on stock microblogs, the application integrates inputs from text classification, user voting and a proprietary Stock Game in order to extract the sentiment (i.e., the bullishness) of online investors with respect to all publicly traded companies of the S&P 500.