The Twitter Game seems inevitable. We enjoy watching celebrities get into fights on Twitter, and now we can make money by betting on who will blow up next.
The Twitter Game screen
BetAmerica has launched The Twitter Game, a fantasy-sports-like game where you can bet on which celebrities will tweet the most. If this had been in place when singer Miley Cyrus went to war against musician Sinead O’Connor on Twitter, you would have made a bundle. O’Connor took Cryus to task for her recent “twerking” performances, and Cyrus retaliated with a Twitter tirade.
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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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