Categories: OLD Media Moves

The Bloomberg terminal, Trump tweets, and investing

Bloomberg has published a how-to guide on how its 325,000 terminal users can monitor Tweets by president-elect Donald Trump and get the tweets delivered directly to their inboxes.

To be alerted to tweets by the U.S. president-elect, Bloomberg’s recently introduced natural-language search functionality helps users assess their impact. Trump’s recent tweets have caused the stock prices of Boeing and Lockheed Martin to fall.

At a terminal, a user would type “tweets from trump” in the command line and hit <GO>. This generates a scrolling feed of tweets from Trump’s Twitter handle — @realDonaldTrump.

There are two options for setting up alerts to follow Trump’s tweets depending on how a user would like to receive them. Subscribers can set up message or on-screen pop-up alerts.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.