The Top 10 Financial Tweets For Thursday, August 8

There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful, or just down right comical.

1. Zerohedge

Zerohedge (@zerohedge) tweeted an interesting fact about Bill Ackman and his position in J.C. Penney JCP.

It would only take all of Ackman's net worth to prefund JCP's cash burn for one year

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 8, 2013

2. Phil Pearlman

StockTwits Executive Editor Phil Pearlman (@ppearlman) tweeted about Tesla TSLA and how this country just needs many more of these firms to become an economic superpower once again.

awesome quality of US that innovative companies like $TSLA start up & grow here. could do better sure but still great & not said enough.

— Phil Pearlman (@ppearlman) August 8, 2013

3. Scott Bleier

Create Capital's Scott Bleier (@CreateCapital) tweeted this morning after seeing a sea of green on the tape, noting that volumes are just at dead lows.

Mostly everything green. No real sellers. Why: just because. my "Twittercation" continues...

— Scott Bleier (@CreateCapital) August 8, 2013

4. Pattern Traders

Pattern Traders (@JEliasof) tweeted about a legal ruling over Bitcoin and whether it can legally be a currency.

Court officially declares Bitcoin a real currency http://t.co/rCiiSxofO1 (h/t @chigrl)

— Pattern Traders Ltd. (@JEliasof) August 8, 2013

5. Zachary Prensky

Little Bear Investing's Zachary Prensky (@Zackfoot) tweeted about the Linn Energy LINE. The company, recall, is still under an investigation by the SEC.

What I don't understand in $LINE - with all the debt, you miss FCF/unit est by a country mile, and the market essentially gives you a pass

— Zachary Prensky (@Zackfoot) August 8, 2013

6. Kevin Kaiser

Hedgeye's senior energy analyst Kevin Kaiser (@HedgeyeENERGY) tweeted during the Linn Energy conference call after earnings. He is apparently of the belief that the company is hiding information from investors as the SEC continues its investigation.

$LINE $LNCO mgmt would not take my questions. Took no buyside questions either. How's that for accountability

— Kevin Kaiser (@HedgeyeENERGY) August 8, 2013

7. Eric Scott Hunsader

Nanex's founder Eric Scott Hunsader (@) has been a large proponent of the theory that many alto computers abuse the natural gas inventories release data. He noted that massive trading occurred three seconds before the release was due out.

How'd you like that? 3600 NatGas futures and 400K of $UNG -- all at once starting 10:29:57 <<<boom>>> $NG_F

— Eric Scott Hunsader (@nanexllc) August 8, 2013

8. Josh Barro

Business Insider's Politics Editor Josh Barro (@jbarro) tweeted an article that he wrote. He notes that home prices on the west coast appear to be a new bubble.

Home prices up 34% in a year in Sacramento, 33% in Las Vegas. Is this a new housing bubble? http://t.co/6m8UJE7jkN

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) August 8, 2013

9. Phil LeBeau

CNBC's Phil LeBeau (@Lebeaucarnews) tweeted a downgrade on Tesla TSLA this morning.

Barclays downgrades $TSLA to neutral saying, "Tesla shares have exceeded what we view as a fair value."

— Phil LeBeau (@Lebeaucarnews) August 8, 2013

10. Matthew Boesler

Business Insider's markets reporter Matthew Boesler (@boes_) tweeted following the release of the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort survey in a rather sarcastic manner apparently.

Consumers less uncomfortable than last week: BBG

— Matthew B (@boes_) August 8, 2013

Do you have any tweets that you want considered? Tweet them to me @theKanterman.