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title: Twitter Sentiment and Financial Trends
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4467949/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4467949
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4467949
featured: 2025-12-28
citations: unknown
topic: LLMs & Text
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# Twitter Sentiment and Financial Trends

A new financial sentiment index derived from Twitter data shows strong links to market conditions and can forecast stock market returns, particularly in response to changes in U.S. monetary policy.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4467949
- Identifier: SSRN 4467949
- Released: 2023-06-05
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 124 (2025-12-28): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-12-28/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: LLMs & Text

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