Described by the founders as, ‘A continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it’. The website seems to be a cross between twitter and Wikipedia with the added bonus of running several useful features that facilitate collaboration such as being able to ask a follower to answer a question, tagging any question with topics-redirecting it to a range of users, and posting the question to your twitter/Facebook account.
But what use is it for me? From a work point of view, with a little bit of luck I might be able to get some useful insight from useful people; currently it’s the hugely influential ‘tech’ people that are asking and answering the questions, but as the community grows the timelines and topics will become increasingly congested- and I’d be better off putting my message in a bottle and throwing it into the sea.
My followers on Quora are a subset of my twitter followers, so i’m working in ever decreasing circles. Quora affords me less engagement and a smaller audience than twitter and makes a voyeur of me. The one big advantage is following topics and reading the insight of the high and mighty, i’ll just sit tight and wait until they ask for my input.
Regardless of its future Quora is a great platform for discussion and will prove to be a hotbed of ideas. Twitter for all its interactivity and brilliance doesn’t provide for prolonged multi-user discussion so with the speed that these sites develop and evolve it’ll undoubtedly be an exciting few weeks, days(!) as it finds its place on the social media landscape.
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