I first discovered Twitter mashup ToAnswer through a post on TechCrunch earlier this month. Since its launch, users have been sending feedback to its lone developer Chris Harmston and in a recent visit the site shows a great deal of re-tooling.
The service itself provides users with a better way to ask questions on twitter. Twitter has long been called a crowdsourcing tool but this has always been constrained by the number of followers you have. ToAnswer works to solve this problem by allowing users to send a question to @toask and then allowing anyone to respond to that question from the site in a tweet to @toanswer.
When the service first launched there was a great deal of functionality missing and I had serious concerns about the site’s scalability. However, with recent changes, I think this mashup deserves a revisit and I look forward to seeing more updates to the site.
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