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EpicAdvisor = Twitter.com + EpicAdvice.com

One of the things we've been trying to do here at EpicAdvice.com is make asking and answering questions as easy as possible. In one of our recent discussions, we decided we needed to find ways for users to ask World of Warcraft questions on the fly, no matter where or what they are doing, bringing our newest creation, EpicAdvisor.

EpicAdvisor is an application we've developed to monitor messages sent to it, essentially acting as a window into our site. The first task we set out for our Advisor to accomplish is twitter integration, and its taking its first steps already.

Our first goal with its twitter integration was simple: Allow people using twitter to ask the Advisor questions, in-turn, advisor "re-asking" them on EpicAdvice.com. So how do you do it? Well its pretty simple... if you wanted to ask "What zone can I level skinning from 100-125?" you would tweet the following:

@EpicAdvisor - What zone can I level skinning from 100-125?

The Advisor will grab the question, and enter it into our Queue. EpicAdvisor is not fully automated (yet), so we manually review the questions to ensure their quality, and then convert them into questions. We don't want people spamming our site, so the manual review process may be here for a bit.

Now, things we are working on and things we want to do with EpicAdvisor...

#1 - When the question is reviewed and converted into a question, EpicAdvisor will mention your name in the tweet about the question, showing you the link to your question on your twitter page. So if I asked a question with my personal twitter (Jesta187), the question when fed back into twitter would have "@Jesta187" in the tweet, ensuring I was up-to-date on the questions status.

#2 - Then, every time the question receives a new answer, it can also notify you as well! We will add an "unsubscribe" option incase it gets too spammy or people just wanted to ask a single question.

#3 - We also would like to figure out more ways that you can issue commands to the bot, the possibilities are endless...

So while the Advisor is still in its infancy, enjoy it, test it, and let us know if you have any problems just by tweeting to @EpicAdvice, commenting here or email us here.

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