On March 21, 2006, Twitter was born, and most people outside Silicon Valley thought it was silly and pointless. Ten years later, many of them still do — to the dismay of investors in the now-public company — but despite its detractors, it's still alive and indispensable for the millions of users who can grasp its sometimes puzzling conventions and norms.
On Twitter's birthday, Wired chronicled the platform's 10-year existence — in tweets, naturally.
Meanwhile, United Capital CEO Joe Duran found irony in a conference panel; Chief Investment Officer Burt White of LPL Financial keeps finding offbeat economic indicators; and Joe Weisenthal, host of "What'd You Miss?" on Bloomberg TV, is going to be missing more than usual for a while.
Worst 15-yr return on S&P 500 = -0.4%
Last 15yrs for Hussman Strategic Growth = +0.9%
By fearing the worst, you actually got it?— Eric Nelson, CFA (@ServoWealth) March 24, 2016
if you're investing only on earth, you're still subject to idiosyncratic planetary risk. ;) #vogons @MichaelKitces https://t.co/QCBMZIKowk
— zee smith (@zeefreak) March 29, 2016
MOST GURLS IN THE ADJUSTABLE RATE GAME WITH CHANGING INTEREST OVER TIME BUT I UNDERSTAND THE PLIGHT OF ZERO APR pic.twitter.com/DQ3IaZk2nQ
— Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) March 28, 2016
If a trade deficit today costs jobs and must be repaid in the future with a trade surplus, that's like transferring jobs to future Americans
— Modeled Behavior (@ModeledBehavior) March 23, 2016
Hulk Hogan is now worth more than Valeant.
— Irrelevant Investor (@michaelbatnick) March 22, 2016
custodians discussing diversity.
Says panel of older white men talking to room of older white men. .me included! pic.twitter.com/MoaFyArkNq— Joe Duran (@DuranMoney) March 22, 2016
I don't fish much but when a prospective new client wants to go fishing on his boat for the 1st meeting what's a guy to do LOL.
— Shay Woodward (@PW_NeverQuit) March 21, 2016
Asteroids can always hit, but rarely do. It's customer concentration, or aggressive culture, or debatable biz model staring you in the face.
— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) March 21, 2016
I'd bet more money is lost on the obvious risk than all the black swans combined
— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) March 21, 2016
wife of Pi #PiDay pic.twitter.com/FZaRdwa0RT
— Lauren Foster (@laurenfosternyc) March 14, 2016
Hot dog prices are down 3% over the last year while concert prices are up 4%. We talk today at #LPLMasters about what that means for 2016.
— Burt White (@_BurtWhite) March 8, 2016
Welcome to the world June Bell Weisenthal! 8 lb, 21″ and natural born citizen of the state of Texas. pic.twitter.com/ETt5HgfHtz
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) March 15, 2016
We named her June cause I was lazy. Wanted to name the baby and get in my #NextRateHikeGuesses on one shot.
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) March 15, 2016
Now gonna take a few weeks off to hang out with June and train her to become a chess grandmaster, a future Fed chief and President of Texas.
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) March 15, 2016
— Check out Best Finance Tweets of the Month: February 2016 on ThinkAdvisor.
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