Short and tweet

Talk about karma being a five-letter word and all that. After years of inadvertently serving as the platform that sunk the fortunes of many a global giant, Twitter got a taste of its own medicine after a tweet about the disappointing earnings report of the listed social media major yanked its stock down 18% in a single day. Coming more than an hour before Twitter itself was to make the report public, the tweet perhaps proved that nothing beats real-time networks when it comes to business.