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To: Jamie153 who wrote (31640)	8/3/2019 9:46:35 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 73183

Yeah, but my question specifically is whether Twitter itself could be gamed. There is the often repeated claim that high frequency traders try to locate their trading computers as near as possible to exchanges because cutting down latency gives them an edge. I have yet to see anyone make a similar comment about Twitter, and yet I would think that is increasingly something that could be of interest. And that is independent of Twitter itself perhaps being nefarious. I would think anyone who works in Twitters datacenters must surely have thought about how a little latency between some people's tweets coming in and the same being pushed out to everyone else could be exploited for a lot of $. That would be an interesting hack to insert in Twitters servers, and it might not be detected as it doesn't appear to cause any harm. Just delay some key people's tweets for a few seconds to allow your own AI on your own servers to analysis the content and place a few key trades. Who would know?