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Is Quora an effective tool for participating in realtime conversations at SXSW?

2nd October 2013

My answer to Is Quora an effective tool for participating in realtime conversations at SXSW? on Quora

Not really. Quora tends to deliberately under-emphasize the time aspect if when something was posted—I’m still seeing unanswered questions from SXSW 2011 popping up in my feed!

Posted 2nd October 2013 at 10:45 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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