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Here’s how it works: you sign up through Twitter (using OAuth) and get $5,000 virtual USD to spend on bundles of shares (or 10,000 ’slots’) for words that you think will soon become hot on Twitter.

The most likely to become widely used are the most expensive words to buy (e.g. ‘the’ will cost you $44.9 per share, ‘you’ $25.57 and so on) so before you get sucked in you might want to compare the value of words on Twitter before purchasing using this widget. There’s a leaderboard on the site that identifies the most prolific ‘pretweeters’ and you can tap into the NYTimes’ TimesWire if you’re having trouble finding words that could propel you to the top of that list.

A new way of looking at and enjoying Twitter.

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仕組みについて説明しよう。Twitterから（OAuth経由）でログインすると5,000ドル相当の仮想通貨が渡される。それを元手にして、こ れからTwitter上で流行すると思われる単語を株（ゲーム内では10,000種類の「スロット」と呼ばれる）と見なして売買を行う。

多くの人が利用されるだろうと評価する単語が高値を付ける（たとえば「the」はひと株あたり44.9ドルで、「you」は25.57ドル等）。思惑を外さないよう、事前にウィジェットで単語の価値をチェックしておくこともできる。サイトには株価ボードもあって、最も利益を上げている単語も表示される。どの単語に投資すべきか判断がつかないなら、NYTimesのTimesWireなどで流行りそうな単語をチェックしておいても良いだろう。

こういうスピンオフ的な楽しみ方もアリだよね。

The quality of this work is just amazing. Make sure you checkout the making too.

クオリティー高すぎだろ、常考…。メイキングも注目。

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A website produced under the collaboration by unit9 and Helpful Strangers, for MSI Chicago.

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