Brilliant Hitmontop

INFO 2950 Project

The tangible impacts of social media and the unpredictability of the stock market are especially relevant in today’s day and age. We are continuously seeing how social media posts and twitter tweets are able to influence change in all various segments of society and with historic stock market trends present, we wish to discern a potential relation between the two. In particular, we wish to see how certain tweets, and their respective sentiments about a company can affect the state of the companies stock price, volatility and volume. What we ended up finding was that there is no specific effect of stock-related tweets on volatility and price. However, individual stocks or categories of stocks may still be impacted.