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Only Oprah can make $12 million in an hour with one tweet

You get a loaf. You get a loaf. You get a loaf. Oprah Winfrey’s love for bread made her $12 million in just over an hour on Tuesday. The media mogul and the largest individual stakeholder in Weight Watchers International Inc. tweeted a video at 12:09 p.m. Eastern time professing that she had lost 26 pounds while eating bread every day. Over the next hour, Weight Watchers shares WTW, +19.51% rallied more than 16%. (more…)