Spread Certificate · No. HIS-01169
This certifies how far it spread
GameStop short squeeze
September 2019 ·seeded onRedditthenYouTubePressXGroup chatsOpen webRetailBox office
Spread Score
54
Notable
Verified independently
Verified
100M
Average GME shares traded per day, January 13-29; approximate
SEC (document transcript hosted by Readkong)
Verified
900K
Nearly 900,000 individual trading accounts; not unique people
SEC (document transcript hosted by Readkong)
Verified
17 months
Seed to peak proxy, Sep 8 ’19 to Jan 28 ’21
Verified
8 platforms
Started on Reddit
Claimed, not audited
Claimed
10B
Vendor estimate of nearly 10B potential impressions; not observed reach
Per Sprout Social
Claimed
1.6M
Vendor-reported GameStop tweets, January 20-27; lower bound
Per Sprout Social
Claimed
30.9K
#WallStreetBets uses in GameStop corpus; overlaps tweets and videos
Per Sprout Social