http://bentasker.i2p/posts/blog/the-internet/a-week-on-twitter.html
Significant Shareholder Impact So far, the examples have arguably been fairly limited in their impact: those affected might not like what was tweeted, but is there any real harm? You may or may not have heard of the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly . Earlier this week, an account pretending to be them tweeted the following This initally led to the company tweeting an apology However, investors were unnerved, and Eli Lilly's share price took a significant hit As a result of that one prank,...