About this website
Hello there!
My name is Dmitri, I am the creator of this website and here is some brief background.
I wanted to gain some experience with writing web apps based on Twitter API.
I did not want to write something that has already been done many times, like image hosting for twitter. There are literally over dozen image hosting sites that work with Twitter accounts.
So, I decided to write an app that I have not seen yet. I've seen some sites that let you create a quiz, usually they require to enter a minimum of 10 questions and the questions are usually all 'choose one' type.
What I wanted to do is to create a service, call it 'question of the day' (this is where the “QOD” name comes from) and then I would create a new question every day and send out to my followers.
Then I had this 'a-ha' moment, I realized, what if instead of creating a service where I create questions, I would create a website that allows anyone to create their own “Question of the day” service for their Twitter followers?!
I got excited by this idea, went straight to work and here we are at the working website. It has all the basic features and some not so basic.
First of all you can create the basic “select one answer” question, but you can also create “select all correct answer” where a user has to select more than one choice in order to answer the question correctly. This type of question is usually more difficult.
You also can (and usually should) add an explanation of why the correct answers are correct. This helps people to understand why their answer was scored and 'incorrect'
You can and should add tags that best describe the category or topic of your question. For example, you may have a question about astronomy, so put 'astronomy' as the tag. This way, when we have many questions on the site, it will be easy for people to find your question. And you usually want people to find your question because then they will most likely start following you and that's how you grow you followers list.
OK, now the cool part: you probably have noticed that we don't have a character counter anywhere in our form. That because we allow the questions to be as long as they have to be. Basically we going to post a link to the question anyway, so why worry about fitting in 140 characters rule. If your question is longer than 120 chars (we need 20 for the link), we will automatically shorten it and add the Ellipsis character at the end (Ellipsis is 3 consecutive dots, but Twitter considers it as just one character. Pretty cool!)
The answer choices and explanation can also be as long as you need them to be. In the future we may even allow HTML (rich text) in explanations and answer choices, since these don't get sent out to Twitter anyway, so why not?
Each user also gets to have their own 'my answers' history where they can come back at any time and review their previous questions. This can be really helpful if questions are used to prepare for some sort of exam, for example)
Each question owner (user who creates questions) also have 'my questions' history page where all the statistics about their question are displayed like how many people have answered it, how many correct, how many incorrect, how many people liked the question and some extra interesting stats.
This service is cool!
What else do you want to know?