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> Why is twitter special?

The SEC's Rule FD [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2013-2013-51htm



Oh, that's backwards from what I thought the situation was. Thanks!

Apparently such information has to be released in a way that all the public, generally, can see it at once and twitter with it's faked high user numbers and famous people fulfills this. Releasing it on a small local poster board would be illegal because it is limited, where twitter is legal because everyone theoretically has access to twitter.


Eh not entirely true. Twitter throws up a login screen if you try to view more than a couple tweets. There’s probably an argument there since an account (and PII) is required.




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