You should add a $$ aspect on this to incentivize the Twitter users to answer for cash. YouTube does this kind of, and there's another app that does this too I forget what it's called though.
Answers will quickly lose credibility the moment an asker finds out that the answerer was monetarily compensated to answer their question.
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#22The main difference between this and a traditional AMA is that the AMA host agrees to answer questions beforehand. There is no such guarantee in this product - how do you plan on combating questions that just sit idle? If questions just sit unanswered this is basically a twitter aggregate.
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#23[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/31/justin-kan-launches-video-...
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#24The main difference between this and a traditional AMA is that the AMA host agrees to answer questions beforehand. There is no such guarantee in this product - how do you plan on combating questions that just sit idle? If questions just sit unanswered this is basically a twitter aggregate.
Yeah I don't understand the value in this as a platform to ask/answer questions. If I want to ask someone something at their twitter handle, why go through this when I can mention them directly? The only value would be that this has a centralized placed to view questions that were answered or are waiting to be answered. Even then, AMA threads don't just vanish. You can always go back an view them or visit the tabled[…
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#25Re: Show HN: Ask X anything – AMA shouldn't be a one time thing
#26The main difference between this and a traditional AMA is that the AMA host agrees to answer questions beforehand. There is no such guarantee in this product - how do you plan on combating questions that just sit idle? If questions just sit unanswered this is basically a twitter aggregate.
I mean I think there could actually be value in a twitter aggregator for topics you're interested in (no idea why Twitter hasn't done something like that). But I agree.