The Week's Business Tweets: In Recovery?

Tenuous signs of recovery have the business world, well, atwitter. Can the good news hold? The business Twitterati are holding their breath. On their minds this week: celebrity double standards, Citigroup’s resurgence, and God and electricity at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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Incredible: FTC official says new disclosure rules for endorsements don't apply to celebrities.
Jeff Bercovici, media blogger at AOL’s DailyFinance, on the commission’s muddled standards for disclosure by celebrities who are compensated for endorsements.
Twitter.com/Jeffbercovici

growing middle class is sign of bullishness for technology as more and more people will have access to high tech devices and software
Microsoft’s corporate Twitter feed, quoting CEO Steve Ballmer at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Twitter.com/Microsoft

oh, and by the way, macroeconomic advisers tells me q4 gdp tracking at 4.9%. Yes, that could be revised way down. Still rather impressive.
Daniel Gross, columnist for Newsweek and Slate.com.
Twitter.com/grossdm

Steve Forbes: “Despite obstacles, the U.S. economy will grow in 2010.” I'd like to agree, but not w/o increased SB lending & job creation 6:05 PM Jan 5th from TweetDeck
Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic.
Twitter.com/Bill_George

See? Bankruptcy Works -- GM Predicts A Profit This Year
Henry Blodget, editor and CEO of Business Insider
and former equity research analyst.
Twitter.com/hblodget

Economist declares "the year of the paywall." What crap. I still see open plains, don't you? Wait until it happens.
Jeff Jarvis, journalism professor and author of bestseller What Would Google Do?
Twitter.com/jeffjarvis

ES: Getting slightly nauseous at $C sharp ascent... wow... that's a ton of mkt cap creation given how many shares are outstanding. Wow...
Anonymous hedge funder on the recent run up in Citigroup’s stock.
Twitter.com/hedgefundinvest

Attended Ballmer's opening CES keynote. It was delayed 25 min because the hotel lost power! The tech gods have a cruel sense of humor...
David Pogue, technology writer at The New York Times.
Twitter.com/Pogue