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There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful, or just down right comical. 1. Pattern Traders Ltd. Pattern Traders Ltd. (@JEliasof) tweeted the statement from...

StockTwits has raised another $4 million in venture capital financing, led by existing investors Foundry Group and True Ventures. This is a series C round for StockTwits, and brings the total capital raised by the firm to $8.6 million. According to CEO Howard Lindzon, the money will be used to...

Stifel Nicolaus downgraded Altria (NYSE: MO) and Lorillard (NYSE: LO) this morning, as the companies neared its respective price targets. Stifel should have gone the other way and raised the price targets, now downgraded the stocks to Hold. Tobacco has become cool again, whether we want to believe...

Stocktwits was named one of Lead411's "Hottest Southwest Companies". To read more about the award and how it was given, visit the link here.

Stocktwits and Secondmarket are teaming up to collaborate on the $30 billion market of private companies, writes TechCrunch. Stocktwits curates tweets that are indexed with a "$" sign, such as $XOM for Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) or $MSFT for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Now Stocktwits is incorporating...

James Altucher, stockpickr founder and Managing Director at Formula Capital, made a significant long call on twitter this morning. Mr. Altucher said he is looking to buy stocks today. James Altucher said, "My prediction for today. The day looks like 9/21/01. bottom by 10am then up for next 3...