AskOnTwitter.com - Questions & Answers On Twitter

You might be hooked on Twitter or not, and you might think it is either groundbreaking or not that exciting for any reason or the other, but the figures when it comes to actual usage speak for themselves. There are over 8 million users scattered all over the globe, and that is a crowd that will appeal to absolutely any person that wants to get a message across. People are always devising new ways in which to engage that massive community, and that is the case with the solution being reviewed right now.

Basically, AskOnTwitter will enable anybody to post a question and put it to the consideration of fellow twitterers. If you think about it, it all makes sense. With over 8 million users, there ought to be at least one person out there in the Twitterverse that will know the answer, or that will point you in the right direction at the very least.

Some featured tweets include “Does anyone know how to recover pics that were deleted directly off a memory card? They're not in the recycle bin. Dunno where else to look” and “Does anyone know the percentage of web users using Firefox 3.0.7 (the latest version of firefox) on all platforms?”. On the other hand, people can also use this service to do a bit of self-promotion and let others know about their skills. Any way or the other, the service is going to be of help.

“If you have a question - any question - there's no better place to ask it than on Twitter: with 8 million (!) users, there's got to be at least one Tweeter who knows the answer to your question, don't you think?! ;-) AskOnTwitter.com is a simple application that collects all tweets with the phrase 'Does Anyone Know' in it and displays them on these pages, for everyone to see - and to answer!”

Twitter is massive. Such a huge user base has to come up with at least some useful answers.

What topics can and can’t be delved upon? Does anybody monitor the actual questions that are posted?