@ALLNewsTeam has its own record day

Thursday, November 7, 2013 will be remembered by many financial-market watchers as the day that Twitter made the most irrationally exuberant stockmarket debut since Google, or since ever, actually.

Others will remember it as the day that the European Central Bank surprised markets by cutting interest rates to the record low of 0.25%, doing the euro no favours in the process.

At Alliance News, we followed both stories closely but spent most of our time staying ahead of the first peak earnings announcement day since our launch. With the newsroom fully staffed by 7 am, @AllNewsTeam excelled.

Alliance News Professional provides 450 news items on a normal day.  On November 7, our top-tier service was pushing 500 news items by lunchtime, well before the ECB or Twitter got around to making history. By the end of the day, ALL Professional had published more than 750 pieces of business news.

A drop in the ocean, to be sure, compared to the 500 million tweets everyday on Twitter, but our goal actually is to cover all 2,400 UK-listed companies as efficiently as possible for our readers. Flash headlines, our version of tweets, accounted for a little over half of the 750 items, with full news articles the other half.

Despite the tidal wave of news on Thursday, Alliance News stuck to its founding principals and covered UK companies big and small.  We published roughly 100 news items each on FTSE 100, FTSE 250, FTSE All-Share and AIM All-Share companies.

Amid the Twitter hype, we also took the time to cover a somewhat smaller debut in London. Everyman Media Group PLC registered its own positive first day of trading, closing the day 17% above its placing price and giving the independent cinema chain at market cap of GBP35 million, compared to Twitter’s USD25 billion.