Michael P. Regan, Columnist

Read This Tweet Before It's Gone

Limiting mentions of research may work against bank's own interest.

December 23, 2015 at 2:47 PM UTC

Michael P. Regan is the global team leader for cryptocurrencies at Bloomberg as well as a former senior markets editor and former Americas team leader for Bloomberg's Markets Live blog. He has covered Wall Street for Bloomberg News as a columnist and editor since 2007. He previously worked for the Associated Press.

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There's a great quote, usually attributed to Mark Twain 1450805826058, about dealing with the press that goes something like this: Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

Bank of America must never have heard that quote, or else heard it and just paid it no mind. Someone working on the bank's behalf apparently asked Twitter to delete some tweets by Business Insider writer Jim Edwards on copyright grounds because they contained screen grabs showing snippets of research from analysts at the firm. (Business Insider, presumably, doesn't buy much ink at all, but you get the drift.)