A Prototype of Attention Simulator on Twitter

According to the concept of the attention economy, the attention is the only thing that is valuable. Twitter is suitable for the simulation of trade of the attention, because Twitter field has many similarities to the attention economy. However, Twitter is inadequate for the visualization of the trade of the attention. The attention on the Twitter can be represented only by the action of the follow. Additionally, the allowable number of the follow is beyond the capacity of the human´s attention, whereas the human´s attention´s being finite. This research studies the environment for visualization of the attention trade on Twitter and simulates the attention economy approaching the real world. As a result, this simulation is expected to motivate the economic activity with the concept of the attention economy and to develop its analytical method.