How Tweet Premonitions Can Make You Virtually Rich
Maybe it won’t provide the familiar adrenaline rush of watching your stock portfolio plummet, but there’s a website out there that allows you to play the Twitter market, so to speak.
As TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters explains, Pretweeting enables players to buy and sell words on Twitter with virtual money.
The first step is to sign up through Twitter (using OAuth). You then get a starting stake of $5,000 in virtual U.S. currency (or 10,000 “slots”) with which to “purchase” words you (and your investment advisers) believe could soon become popular on Twitter.
Just like the real stock market, though, the cost of words are determined by their perceived (or anticipated) value.
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