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this morning. twitter almost ruins a rally. unbelievable, the power of twitter. >> and the power of the market, how quickly it responded. you might remember the flash crash in 2010. it was 700 points. the market just fell for no reason. something happened yesterday that wasn't as big but also as con founding, and it already has a fun name. some calling it the tweet retreat. the associated press says its twitter feed was hacked, and it posted a tweet there was an explosion near the white house. i'm not going to show you that tweet again in part because i don't want to freak anybody out. that happened at 1:07 p.m. eastern time. until that moment, until that tweet, the dow was riding a nice value. look at the drop. the slide was 145 points in just a couple of minutes because of that ap tweet. the associated press quickly tweeted its account was hacked. then the dow recovered and closed up 152 points. this is a really interesting new risk of social media in the markets, and it raises questions obviously about twitter's cyber security. also, just how quickly the