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Comment by erikwiffin | Hacker News Reader

Does Wolfram|Alpha have an API? if so, you could do a pretty cool question/answer thing.

  erikwiffin: @tweetin why is the sky blue?
  tweetin: @erikwiffin The sky's blue color is a result of the effect of Rayleigh scattering.  Shorter-wavelength blue light is... http://bit.ly/3qaEo

tweet.in could be a searchable/rankable/commentable database of all the searches that it has performed.

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There is an API so I believe your suggestion ought to be possible. Just to play devil's advocate though; wouldn't people overestimate Wolfram's capabilities and expect the bot to be able to answer all sorts of difficult questions that it can't grok, particularly about ongoing political/cultural events which seems to be the lifeblood of Twitter, thereby making the service look kind of lame and useless..?

I'll do whatever gets the most votes but it seems this thread was forsaken. Would have been nice to see more discussion/refinery!

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