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(concentric elite growth strategy || answers filtered by my friends) + email notifications == win Quora has so many respected tech industry people using it tha
by SpikeGronim 16y ago
(concentric elite growth strategy || answers filtered by my friends) + email notifications == win
Quora has so many respected tech industry people using it that I want to use it. That's similar to how Facebook was first Harvard only, then Ivy League, etc. - you want to be where your perceived social betters are.
My Quora feed shows the topics that my friends are interested in. This is super valuable for finding information slightly outside what I would search for myself.
Their email notifications keep me clicking back to the site so that I stay engaged.
- erik_landerholm 16y agoyeah, it's cool right now. but, to get big they are going to have to let the 'unwashed masses' in. Expect more questions like, "why is paris hilton such a sloot?" and less about interesting topics with interesting answers. Once that happens, and it will have to happen for them to have the number of users that twitter or facebook has it will descend into yahoo answer hell. I don't see how they avoid that and get mass user adoption.
- Swannie 16y agoI strongly agree.
- SpikeGronim 16y agoThat's very much a risk for Quora. But if they're still showing me my friends' activity that could ameliorate the problem. My friends are still going to be asking/answering questions that I am likely to be interested in.