[Football] How Fast do Fake Transfer Rumors Spread?

[US Seagull]

About six minutes. Six minutes for SkyBet to cut the odds of a transfer based on a joke tweet:

 

[schmunk]

Betting companies change their odds due to betting flows, to ensure adequate hedging, not on the basis of Tweets. He successfully fooled the gambling public (shame on him) not SkyBet.

 

[RandyWanger]

So many thirsty people on the internet

 

[Audax]

Betting companies change their odds due to betting flows, to ensure adequate hedging, not on the basis of Tweets. He successfully fooled the gambling public (shame on him) not SkyBet.

I didn't think he was suggesting he fooled SkyBet. SkyBet was mentioned because they were the first to move their odds in response to activity. If you watch the video he spends most of it amazed at how little research was being done and how many people were simply taking the tweet at face value.

 

[zefarelly]

So many thirsty people on the internet

Who need the cooling quench of NSC

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