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.

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.

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.

4. Pattern Traders

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

9. Phil LeBeau

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

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.

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