As Google joins Bing and others in upping the capability of its real-time searching – to provide better insight into trending stories on Facebook, Twitter etc. – I wonder whether now is the time for the S.E.C. to add a Twitter feed to its existing RSS feed. Or maybe there is one and I just missed it? Most days I go on Twitter and search for XBRL to find the latest buzz on the topic. So today I entered ’10-Q’ and ’10-K’ to see if any XBRL report filings came up, and they didn’t. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any posted to Twitter just that these are obviously not being used as common hash tags for XBRL report filings.
Part of the power of ‘interactive data’ comes not just from the format but from getting the data out there so I’m not at all sure why there is no automated Twitter stream as I am sure it’s a trivial thing to do. If XBRL-Labs can create an iphone app, then a Twitter feed should be a doddle. I imagine the tweet as an automated post coming from the S.E.C. based on a filing event and the body of the Tweet comprising something like :
ACME Inc. 10-K (or 10-Q) 2010 (or quarter/year) plus a shortened URL that takes you directly to the instance document in the S.E.C. viewer plus a few fixed hashtags like #SEC #XBRL #10-K (or #10-Q)
That’s unlikely to go over 140 characters and would add XBRL filings to the stream to further tantalize the Twitterati.
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