twitter causes confusion yet again

plus: stocks are stupid ONE CRACKED FACT | [View in Browser]( [logo]( [When Twitter Went Public, Confused Investors Bought The Wrong Stock]( By: [RM Avatar] [Ryan Menezes]( • November 15, 2021 [11152021](www.cracked.com/article_31759_when-twitter-went-public-confused-investors-bought-the-wrong-stock.html?newsletter-cat=tech?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=15112021) We're living in the era of meme investing, when stock prices suddenly balloon for reasons unconnected with how much the company's worth. The era started approximately as soon as the stock market began. It kicked into high gear during the '90s tech boom, and it came back again during the next tech boom, the rise of social media. In November 2013, Twitter was about to go public for the first time, and its shares would sell for about $45 at the end of its first trading day. One month before that, though, investors thought they spotted some shares in the wild. Twitter was going to trade under the code TWTR, and they saw shares for sale using the code TWTRQ. Now, those are different codes of course. But the investors thought—correctly—that the Q was just something authorities stick on the end when there's something funny about the stock. That funny thing, they guessed, was that the stock was being listed too early, which was why they were able to snap up shares for less than a penny. The stock started the day at less than a penny, anyway. In a few hours, it rose 1,800 percent. A few investors figured they had suddenly become very rich. TWTRQ was not actually Twitter, as you've already guessed. It was a company called Tweeter Audio and Video, and that Q on the end of the code was supposed to warn investors that this was a bankrupt company whose stock was worthless. As for the real Twitter stock, if any of you are wondering how rich you'd be if you'd bought in on day one, well, let's take a look and see. It seems that, factoring in inflation, if you'd held on to Twitter stock for the past eight years, you would have actually ... lost money. Huh. Hey, not all tech stocks can be winners. For more stupid stock stories, check out: - [A Random British Dude Crashed The Stock Market From His Parents' House]( - [A Stock Trading Glitch Costs $10 Million Per Minute]( - [5 Hilarious Stories Of Stock Prices Driven By Stupidity]( Fan of the internet and money? Our friends at Know Your Meme just launched a daily newsletter all about NFTs! Learn more and subscribe at [knowyournfts.io](. [Daily Digest]( [Weird World: 12 Strange Things That, Nevertheless, Are Real]( [By Andrea Meno / November 15th, 2021]( [5 People With Wild Past Lives They Kept Hidden]( [By Zachary Frey / November 15th, 2021]( [14 Lies About Dinosaurs and Paleontology Movies and TV Have Told You]( [By Andres Diplotti / November 14th, 2021]( [KFC Is Selling Weird Princess Diana-Themed 'Spencer' Tie-In Merch]( [By JM McNab / November 14th, 2021]( [A YouTuber's Giving Old-School 'Sonic,' 'Mario,' And 'Zelda' Games Great 3D Remakes]( [By Stephen Buckley / November 14th, 2021]( [READ MORE]( [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [flipboard]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2021 Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd. [Unsubscribe](