Weird'o' 9

The Quora

I believe many of us have heard about or maybe used quora. For those who don't know,, It is a place where people ask question and those who know will answer it..........

And now we are going to see some weird stufff about it.

Stufff 1. The Name Quora Comes From the Word Quorum

 Many of the people believe that “Quora” is simply named by taking the Prefix “Qu” of Question and “a” of Answer which is joined by“or”. According to this belief, the Question and Answer website got its name by this format. Now that’s an interesting as well as intelligent name, isn’t it?

However, as per the founders of the website –charlie cheever.and Adam D'angelo the website got its name from the word “Quorum” which means a group of people coming together for discussion and reaching in a general agreement. In addition, the co-founders in an interview to the Venture beat mentioned that Quora was in rhyme with Flora which means being healthy and active.

Stufff 2 Obama is on Quora

Even Barack Obama, the coolest president  is on quora and he has got a whopping amount of 154.4k followers.......He has also made few answers as you can see them below......

Last updated:- today😏😏😏

Stufff 3 Mark Zuckerberg Acquired Nextstop, After Quora Users Suggested Him to Do So....

Don’t be surprised when I tell you Mark Zuckerberg used this Question and Answer website to ask people – What startups would be good acquisitions for Facebook? And soon, the founder of the Facebook went on to buy NextStop, one of the startups suggested to him on the platform.

OOOOpsiiiiie

Stufff 4 Quora has the traffic mostlyfrom USA and India......

And i believe the traffic from India is lo because most people don't know about it in India

Stufff 5 The Founders Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever Are Ex – Facebook Employees

Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo was CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at Facebook and also VP (Vice President of Engineering). However, he quit his job to start the platform along with his co-founder Charlier Cheever who was also one of the early FB employees. In addition, Adam and Mark Zuckerberg are friends right from the school days.

Stufff 6 Not Just Question And Answers, You Can Also Blog Here...

                    At QuoraBlogs you can make your own blog and feed contents there. It is quite helpful for people those who do not have enough Twitter or Facebook followers, and want to get good number of audience without much marketing and efforts. What’s more you can create as many blogs as you wish to create. It is both PC and mobile friendly.

Stufff 7 Quora Will Soon Start Ads for Monetization:-

                        Ever since Quora was started in 2009 and then launched in 2010, it has been funded but not monetized. Even, at present, the company is funded with no monetization. However, starting from 2015, it is expected to come up with ads. This means, soon we will witness ads on the Quora website.

Stufff 8 Balaji Viswanathan is the most followed person on quora and the best part is that he is an Indian.

Total Answer Views : 253 Million
Followers : 445k
Job :Vice President at Invento
Country : India

Balaji Viswanathan is the Most Followed Person on Quora with 445k Followers , Till Date he has answered 4200 Question which has grabbed him a total view count of 253 Million , Which is also the highest by an individual on Quora.

Stufff 9 Jimmy Wales the Founder of Wikipedia is Quora’s One of the Top Writers With 650 Answers

            Jimmy Wales is a small investor, and is also an advisor to the website. He has 1 blog with two posts. It seems the founder of Wikipedia writes more on Quora than Wikipedia as we see he has 650 answers to his credit and 1581 edits. He has 121.4k followers.

               

Stufff 10 Top writers are invited to occasional events

                 Top writers are invited to occasional events and receive gifts such as branded clothing items and books. The company believes that, by cultivating a group of core users who are particularly invested in the site, the program creates a feedback loop of user engagement...........And the best part is you can see Mark Zuckerberg in the crew..

But actually it is not him😆

Though the guy in the left of second row is so similar to him...

Maybe a clone.......😐