## [Social Media in Financial Markets: The Coming of Age](https://s3.amazonaws.com/st-research/social-media-and-markets-the-coming-of-age.pdf) gnip 2016

[The Value of Crowdsourced Earnings Forecasts](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2333671)  compare with [https://www.tipranks.com/](https://knowen.org/nodes/26741?path=19-26176-26184-26182-26202-26741)

- The **first class of companies** we have seen in the marketplace focus on social media “monitoring” for finance.

> Non-financially focused social monitoring firms such as Brandwatch have also
> illustrated that investors and not just brands can use their platforms

[and in 2020 Brandwatch still active](https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/react-covid-19-stock-market-investors/) which replaced [Topsy as a social intelligence leader based on Twitter](https://knowen.org/nodes/26832?path=1-24392-24509-26039-26275-26804-26832) 




- A **second class of companies focuses on social media analytics for finance**

>  Eagle Alpha has spent several years honing both machine-learning and humanscreening processes to identify financial topic-based influencers to find and give perspective to key financial news breaking and being discussed on Twitter


## 2020 [The Good, the Bad, and the Social Media: Financial Implications of Social Media Reactions to Firm-Related News](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3567201)

- 2015 WEForum [Can social media influence financial markets?](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/can-social-media-influence-financial-markets/)

## 2016 Bukovina [Social media and CapitalMarkets - review](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/4904/social-media-and-capital-markets-an-overview.pdf)

- 2020 podcast [How Money Became A Form Of Social Media](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096?i=1000500325486)