[nxsynonym]

The main difference between this and a traditional AMA is that the AMA host agrees to answer questions beforehand.

There is no such guarantee in this product - how do you plan on combating questions that just sit idle? If questions just sit unanswered this is basically a twitter aggregate.

[noxToken]

Yeah I don't understand the value in this as a platform to ask/answer questions. If I want to ask someone something at their twitter handle, why go through this when I can mention them directly?

The only value would be that this has a centralized placed to view questions that were answered or are waiting to be answered. Even then, AMA threads don't just vanish. You can always go back an view them or visit the tabled[0] subreddit to read the AMA without the extra comments.

[0]: tabled.reddit.com

[anindha]

If 1000's of people are asking the same question then its more likely to be answered.

[_sdegutis]

This was tried at least once before (e.g. FormSpring), and that was the exact downfall: sites like this turned into ghost towns.

[wang2bo2]

It has some benefits for influencers to adopt it. On twitter, instagram, and youtube, the comment section is quite messy. If you're a big name, you'll be overwhelmed by questions, and same questions are asked over and over again. Going through all those questions to pick out important ones is tedious. This is basically a zendesk for them (if they want to engage with their followers). So you're right, like AMA, going from influencers' side probably has a better chance to bring the community up.

On the other hand, the fact that an important questions getting large number of thumb-ups is a statement by itself. Imagine a question for POTUS with 10k thumb-ups but got no answer from him/her. It's a headline material.

[BinaryIdiot]

I mean I think there could actually be value in a twitter aggregator for topics you're interested in (no idea why Twitter hasn't done something like that). But I agree.

[noxToken]

Twitter did do something like that. Hashtags. It started as a way to help users categorize their tweets. It still serves that purpose, but it also functions as beacons to users and a way to highlight a specific sentiment.