Pretweeting: Twitter Gets a Prediction Market

Think you know what the next hot Twitter trend will be?

Now you can put your money where your mouth is.

Prediction markets have been a growing trend in recent year.

It is essentially a stock market for future events and decisions. For example, people can buy or sell against a specific occurrence – like whether or not the Democrats will lose seats in the 2010 election.

With thousands of people buying and selling on that...