# AP tweets a catastrophe...or maybe not

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**Created:** [April 23, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-tweets-a-catastrophe-or-maybe-not/656538 "2013-04-23T21:23:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-tweets-a-catastrophe-or-maybe-not/656538/1 "2013-04-23T21:23:50Z")

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AP’s Twitter acct was [hacked](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/23/a-false-tweet-heard-around-the-web/?hpt=hp_t3)

Dow drops on the ‘news’.  
Assuming you sold in the down period, would you be able to recover anything?

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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-tweets-a-catastrophe-or-maybe-not/656538/2 "2013-04-23T21:28:58Z")

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I can’t answer your question (except to suppose that it’s tough cookies for anyone who lost money). But this reinforces my internal determination to never believe any news that first comes over Twitter without at least two corroborating sources.

Of course, I don’t follow anyone on Twitter or use it at all, so chances are I won’t need to put that determination to the test.  
Roddy

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**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ap-tweets-a-catastrophe-or-maybe-not/656538/3 "2013-04-23T23:48:16Z")

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> [@Spiderman](#):
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> AP’s Twitter acct was [hacked](http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/23/a-false-tweet-heard-around-the-web/?hpt=hp_t3)
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> Dow drops on the ‘news’.  
> Assuming you sold in the down period, would you be able to recover anything?

Not unless you bought back in. No trades were broken.