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Went Hot: June 7, 2008 - 12:07 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 395 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialmediamom.com)
Category: Networking
— Social Media Mom - I am totally hooked. Plurk is by far, more fun, more colorful and more interactive than Twitter and since Twitter has had so many technical issues lately, I’m really starting to think that Plurk might just be my new addiction. There is a great tutorial that I found, that does a great job explaining how to get the most out of Plurk. I sincerely suggest you give Plurk a try and by all means, let me know what you think of it!
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LOVE this post thx for the link !
Plurk is catching ground fast :D
Thanks for the post thgypsy. Wonderful article by Kristen. I just started using Plurk and I really like the layout, but there are some features I wish it had.
I'm all for new services, but let's face the facts that Plurk is too late to stop the Twitter-train from sweeping everyone off their feet. I give it a month or two, but after that, it will be pretty quiet over there (unless they find a way to reduce noice or come out with a killer app for the platform).
I really like Plurk a lot, it's so much better than Twitter and hopefully won't have teh same issues. It'll be interesting to see what happens once the API and SMS are released.
I'm definitely not sold yet but to be fair - that maybe down to me not spending much/any time there yet. These are my main issues with Plurk:
1) No apps - these are essential for me. Twitter was next to useless without Twhirl. Killing off the API capacity was the singularly most stupid thing Twitter could have done.
2) I can't seem to find a way to filter out the responses sent to me (@) - I'm not searching through 400 unread Plurks each time I log on. Without this feature, it moves from a messaging service to a chatroom.
3) It would be great to filter out updates to Plurk conversations I have joined in on (again, I'm not sifting through 400+ unread msgs).
4) Unread messages. What's up with that anyway?? This isn't email, you shouldn't have to read each one. I've declared message bankruptcy every time I've logged in which says something about the feature.
Personally I don't see Plurk going anywhere without the API/apps. Most people connect that way and one "scrolling shared message" service is as good as another if enough people are there. Maybe Plurks greatest achivement will be to force the Twitter folk to sort out their platform, and quick before the traffic moves elsewhere.
I really haven't done anything with this yet, outside of register to "put my flag" on my own online identity. Now I'm going to have to spend some time tonight checking this out.
Thanks for the story...
Me, too...first time I've read an article about Plurk..I thought maybe it's just another Twitter or Jaiku but I was mistaken..it is way too different than the two..it is more fun and easy to use..^^