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Mosio debuts free mobile question service

Social community Mosio has launched Twitter Answers, a free social mobile question service for people on-the-go who want quick answers to life's daily questions.

Anyone can ask questions via Twitter, voice, SMS or email on any mobile device and receive quick, personalized answers and comments in real-time from their network of friends and the entire Mosio community.

"Mosio is growing and people like it," said Noel Chandler, founder/CEO of Mosio, San Francisco. "We are huge Twitter fans and we noticed that people are mainly using it for conversation and not as a tool.

"It's truly a technology platform and it can be used in so many ways, so we decided to let people use it to ask questions," he said.

Mosio is a social mobile community that provides quick and fun answers to life's questions on-the-go. Mosio is available for free on all mobile devices via SMS, email, Twitter or Jott.

Automated mobile search engines can find sushi places in Brooklyn, NY, for example. However, mobile search engines are limited and may not be able to find a sushi place in Brooklyn that has outdoor seating and serves blowfish. Twitter Answers can provide very specific answers.

"We are huge mobile fans and we know the mobile Web is coming," Mr. Chandler said. "SMS is ubiquitous and that's why this service should work well."

Mr. Chandler said that communication software provider Zoom advertised with Mosio via the Twitter questions and answers for about two months. Zoom embedded its marketing message at the bottom of the answers that users were receiving.

He also said that Mosio plans to continue to sell advertising space so that the service can continue to be offered at no cost to users.

Mosio.com launched its beta test community in August 2007. Now publicly available, anyone can visit http://www.mosio.com and ask questions. Or, users can text or email any question to .

"What's great is the answers are answered by the community," Mr. Chandler said. "There is a natural way for category sponsorship within each text. We are aiming to be ad-based."