{"id":58771,"date":"2017-07-03T00:53:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58771"},"modified":"2017-07-03T00:53:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:53:55","slug":"chatty-billionaire-ackman-grabs-bigger-megaphone-with-twitter-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/chatty-billionaire-ackman-grabs-bigger-megaphone-with-twitter-account.html","title":{"rendered":"Chatty Billionaire Ackman Grabs Bigger Megaphone With Twitter Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Billionaire investor William Ackman, one of the hedge fund industry&#8217;s most voluble managers with opinions ranging from how companies should be run to the dangers of sugary drinks, just got himself an even bigger megaphone: a Twitter account. Using the handle, @BillAckman1, the 51-year-old investor is the latest to join the social media network that rivals like Carl Icahn, @Carl_C_Icahn, have used to unveil investment ideas and comment on news about portfolio companies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedgefunds-ackman-twitter-idUSKBN19K2MM\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Billionaire investor William Ackman, one of the hedge fund industry&#8217;s most voluble managers with opinions ranging from how companies should be run to the dangers of sugary drinks, just got himself an even bigger megaphone: a Twitter account. Using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58772,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58771\/revisions\/58772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}