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Ask HN: Twitter style StackOverflow?

1 pointsby siddhantover 14 years ago
Every time I ask something on StackOverflow, or on any other forum for that matter, I keep on refreshing the page to see if anyone posted any replies. Just now it came to my mind - could this be done via Twitter (hashtags, to be specific)?<p>To ask a question, just add a hash tag to your question (lets say #someonepleaseanswerthisasap, or something better) and tweet it. People can just track this hashtag, and answer whatever they feel like answering.<p>Might sound like like Aardvark, but on top of Twitter. Does this sound weird, or possible?

2 comments

mattiaskover 14 years ago
What is the purpose? If you do it on twitter you lose lot's of stuff that makes stackoverflow good: reputation, voting, a competent userbase etc.<p>What you want probably is a notification when someone anwers a question. If email isnt' fast enough build your own notification system using their API
davewinerover 14 years ago
140 characters isn't enough for support questions. True, some people are long-winded. So <i>some</i> limit would probably be good. (143 characters.)