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Re: Pretweeting: Twitter Gets a Prediction Market

fatburningfurnace — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:45:11 -0000

Twitter has offered very good features, no wonder there are many people like to use it.

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Fat burning furnace — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:01:17 -0000

Twitter is doing pretty good, I like this social media site very much.

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Mp3 rocket — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:44:03 -0000

Used Twitter for quite a few years, love it so much!

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Mp3 rocket — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:40:29 -0000

I like Twitter as it is really powerful to get connected with people. I think it will continue to give us more surprise.

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jumpmanual — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:37:32 -0000

Pretweeting is an interesting experiment， I would like to see how twitter grow in the next ten years.

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Re: Pretweeting: Twitter Gets a Prediction Market

Mark Turrell — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:18:35 -0000

I think we need a Twitter version of Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame... and then apply it to yet-another-Twitter micro-business. Perhaps a 140 characters of fame - enough for a Twitter-based business name, and some trendy topic to attach it to.

Prediction Markets have a rich tradition - with a decent amount of success in the consumer / public domain space (e.g. Iowa election market, Hollywood Exchange), and an emerging body of work around the enterprise space (e.g. case studies from Consensus Point on their work at GE Research and Best Buy - www.consensuspoint.com).

One of the challenges (of the many that exist) around prediction markets is gaining some form of credibility with real, meaningful, actionable results. That is to say something that is more than just an interesting aside piece in a newspaper story. PMs have a hard enough time in the real world - and Pretweeting just pushes the tool in the direction of triviality once more.

I really do hope that Prediction Markets find their niche within the corporate space. The power of the crowd is extremely useful when applied in the right way - using a 'human laser beam' to address business problems. This is more akin to Enterprise Crowdsourcing than the often seen Mobsourcing approach. Hopefully this site will tempt people into learning more about an emergent area... and not discourage them from finding out about how to make prediction markets and enterprise crowdsourcing actually useful.

Mark Turrell
CEO, Imaginatik plc
www.imaginatik.com

Re: Pretweeting: Twitter Gets a Prediction Market

augusto — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:42:41 -0000

yeh I agree to your opinion that it should be real money to all who prospect on online marketing business Im just a newbie here and trying to make things in focus.

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iTbay — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:55:48 -0000

what about prediction hedging?

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JackieDomanus — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:26:46 -0000

This would be MUCH cooler if you could make real money like the stock market and NOT "Virtual" Money.

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Name — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:19:52 -0000

More time suck status for Twitter. Let's see a company who makes money selling that data, that's the interesting story

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Finn Jack — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:15:18 -0000

PreTweeting?! In my opinion, the craze for Twitter is going to die soon. Tweet, then ReTweet, and now PreTweet, it is just increasing the traffic, and many new businesses are done with Twitter.
Twitter by itself contains the hot tends and technologies, is Prediction Market a necessity?

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brian fanslau — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:30:55 -0000

I completely agree. Many interesting mirrored stock market applications have been launched and are no doubt fantastic tools for learning but they rarely last.

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Brad — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:10:54 -0000

Sorry but I completely disagree, I think Twitter's decision to block advertising or just maintain order on the site is an important part in helping Twitter maintain a respectable reputation as a social news outlet. If you start crowding it with advertising, the trending topics become skewed and therefore not nearly as legitimate or useful. Given enough advertising accounts all teaming up on the same topic it would destroy the integrity of the site. Not to mention the fact it's hard enough keeping out the clutter as it is. What your suggestion would do to Twitter is what Spam did to email; make it one more piece of technology that you need to sort threw the garbage to get to anything good. Don't forget Twitter doesn't make any add revenue themselves why should someone else get a piece of the action first.

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Brad — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:01:09 -0000

This could also get really old really quick. I'm not bashing the idea outright by any means, it's definitely interesting. However without any tangible benefit from using this service I can't see it being anything more then a fad.

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Name — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:50:14 -0000

If twitter doesn't stop suspending accounts and allow itself to grow people are going to tire of it! Twitter, would be so great if it was just an open micro blog. If you don't like what someone else is using their micro blog on twitter for. Then, you can BLOCK them, but if Twitter keeps up this KICK it's on of late suspending accounts for advertising or what have you. Then, Twitter will soon die! PERIOD!

Re: Pretweeting: Twitter Gets a Prediction Market

Anthony Farrior — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:49:52 -0000

Great, something else addictive...