30 Jan
2017
30 Jan
'17
10:03 p.m.
This bot <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/30/trumps_corporate_twitter_trolling_tapped_to_support_puppies/> analyzes Trump’s tweets, identifies the company he is badmouthing, and does a quick short-sell to profit from the momentary dip in the company’s stock value. T3's approach involves using a Python Twitter bot and API calls to services like Indico for machine learning (sentiment analysis and entity recognition), Clearbit for company identification, Google Finance for stock pricing, and E‑Trade for executing the trade. They have been donating the profits to charity. Imagine that--an ethical use for short-selling...