There’s a new way to invest. Topsy Labs has begun using Twitter and other social media to identify upcoming market trends.

What? You’re skeptical!

So were we but Topsy Labs co-founder Rishab Ghosh tells us that Twitter can provide some very valuable insights.  “You can analyze mass opinion every day. And it can be applied to lots and lots and stocks.”

He points to Apple’s

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“But Twitter sentiment showed that consumers loved it,” he says. “If you had bought at the time of the iPhone 4S, you’d have made a return of 20% in 2 weeks.”

“Twitter sentiment is a giant opinion poll that you can take for products and companies all the time,” he adds.

Check out our entire conversation with Ghosh. Watch the video above!

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