toanswer : Just another twitter mashup ???
Technology August 6th, 2008The popularity of any web application that provides an API can be judged by the number of mashups available for it. Twitter is no exception and recently we have seen a significant number of mashups available for twitter.
twittervision ,twitterspy, twittermap, twubble are some of the popular ones. Besides there are many desktop mashups also.
toanswer is the latest addition to this list. Created by Chuck Harmston, it can be seen as integration of twitter and Yahoo answers/Ask.
The concept behind toanswer is simple : users ask questions on twitter and they get answers to these questions on a dedicated place i.e. toanswer.
Seeing the potential number of users who ask questions on twitter, no wonder if toanswer becomes a success.
toanswer uses the twitter API, collects the questions asked,their respective answers, indexes them and shows them on toanswer. Basically it works like this-
Assuming you are a twitter user, you just have to follow 2 users toask and toanswer and you are ready to use toanswer. If you want to ask a question you send an update to twitter as
@ToAsk your_question_goes_hereIf you want to answer any question that is on toanswer you reply in a format like this
@ToAnswer [questionid] your_answer_goes_here
Note the questionid. It is required in order to associate your answer with the correct question.
As twitter is limited to 140 character updates, this can be used to take advice from users rather then answers.
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