April kept the Twitterati of the finance world in top form.
When a bombing killed three people and injured hundreds at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Americans took to Twitter, watching the aftermath of the attack unfold in real time as journalists and other observers unearthed a cascade of details (some more accurate than others). The stream of breaking news continued for weeks—near the end of the month, hundreds of tweets with the words "Boston bombing" appeared every hour.
The month also brought its share of market antics. Gold plunged, Bitcoin took a wild ride and one of the most influential economic policy papers in recent memory got called into question by a simple spreadsheet error. A Syrian group hijacked The Associated Press' Twitter feed, posting fake reports of explosions at the White House and causing a blink-and-you'll-miss-it $200 billion crash of the S&P 500—it quickly recovered.
Meanwile, Sallie Krawcheck threw a punch in the battle of the sexes, the Reformed Broker Josh Brown got snarky about Spanish unemployment and Bill Gross opined on the pomp and pageantry of stock trading.
Here are 15 of this month's best finance tweets:
Tweets on a variety of economic topics:
Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) April 26, 2013
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev moved to same federal medical prison where Raj Rajaratnam is serving sentence | bloom.bg/11HUtic
PIMCO (@PIMCO) April 22, 2013
(PIMCO's Bill Gross, left)
Gross: Opening bell ceremonies rather comical really. People clapping for themselves making money. For now that is.
Alan Moore, MS, CFP® (@R_Alan_Moore) April 15, 2013
To the person who found my website by googling "Should I cash in my 401k to pay off student loans?" the answer is No… you shouldn't
Sallie Krawcheck (@SallieKrawcheck) April 12, 2013
Well, there you have it…It's Official: Men Can't Read Women's Emotions zite.to/Yxjcqh via @zite
Anil Dash (@anildash) April 12, 2013
Google launched a feature letting you choose what happens with your data after you die. Toughest part of building it was the user testing.
Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) April 26, 2013
Spanish unemployment hits 98%, for 18-35 year olds 126%.
On the plunge in gold prices:
John Melloy (@CNBCMelloy) April 23, 2013
Goldman's short #gold call on April 10 (which they now closed) netted clients 10%. Not a bad bone to throw to the muppets for 6 days work.
Moshe A. Milevsky (
