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Social Media Information And Analyst Forecasts, Mahfuja Malik, Rajib Hasan, Abu S. Amin
Social Media Information And Analyst Forecasts, Mahfuja Malik, Rajib Hasan, Abu S. Amin
WCBT Faculty Publications
In the past decade, social networking has changed the landscape of information dissemination. The rapid diffusion of social media services such as Facebook and Twitter is unprecedented and offers immense possibilities for corporations to communicate with, and engage core stakeholders in, various business decisions. In this study, we investigate whether social media play any role as a source of information for financial analysts. We specifically focus on information revealed on the official Facebook pages of S&P 500 firms. We define information content on a Facebook page as the total number of posts by the corporations and the comments, likes and …