DD Support Board and Research Team

[janice shell]

"SEC Wants to Keep Tabs on Social Media Posts That Could Move Markets"

LOL!! Good luck to them with that.

In order to keep tabs on the never-ending flow of statements on the various social media platforms, SEC is looking for a complete, web-based tool to scrape the major sites for keywords on relevant topics. When a keyword pops, the tool should send an email alerting the appropriate SEC staff.

They tried that once before, back in the late 90s. They created some kind of software that would crawl message boards and alert the agency to phrases like "the next Microsoft".

Needless to say, it was completely useless.