I just had a great idea for a website. In the UK there's a question answering service for text messages, its called AQA Answer any question. You just send a message like "Where are Idlewild playing tonight?" or "How much does the British prime minister earn?" "Where are the guys from the Bowlie messageboard meeting up today?" and so on, to 63336. It costs £1 if they reply. Its kind of fun to do in the pub.
Anyhoo, my great idea for a website... It searches twitter for occurances of "?" and copies that tweet to the website, and anyone can answer the question.
So there's just this stream of questions, it looks like a chatroom, and when you see one you know the answer to, you click on it and can send a reply to the person who asked it.
Now, if some twitter programming chap reads this and actually does it and it turns into a hugely successful thing, can you buy me a drink?
And to see what it would be like tried searching for "?" here, and the coolest thing, although it look like there are about 50 question mark tweets a minute, the first time I did it, it got one from Stephen Fry.
Stephen Fry is everyone's favourite uncle.
I'm refraining from following him though cos on Never Mind The Buzzcocks he came across as being a bit gimmicky "Man who knows obscure facts" rather than being a sophisticated genius type.
Apparently everyone in the world is following Stephen Fry on Facebook right now. I met someone in the pub* last night who had a friend who had left Fry a comment that had made him roffle.
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