What is Plurk?
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I asked my friends to explain to me what the hell Plurk was all about. Their answers were quite telling:
It's like Twitter for jr. high kids. - Nathaniel Payne
it's like twitter, w/ better attachment functionality, on a horizontal time-line thus easier to review, but not mobile friendly. - clarke
I agree, it's silly - Ryan
-100 karma for Nathaniel! :-) - Chris Harris
Its Twitter with the ability to have threaded conversations. The horizontal timeline is hard to get used to, but the mobile app is vertical. - Mike Templeton
Like everyone said it's like Twitter with an Ajax on crack interface that is not impressive and something that I can't see lasting beyond the initial buzz it got because of Twitter's instability. - Chris Rodgers
twitter for kids or painkiller for heavily depressed tweeple - Dobromir Hadzhiev
move moves the wrong way - Marc Canter
have you ever played defender? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D…) its twitter with a defender interface :) - Scott Cropper
-1000 karma for Chris Harris! (which will be rendered as a severe beating at the next dmtweetup) ;-) - Nathaniel Payne
@clarke, http://www.plurk.com/m <- mobile version ;-) - AJ Batac
its like an unnecessarily complicated version of twitter that nobody really uses - so maybe it's more like pownce :) - Jennifer Van Grove via twhirl
it's a chat-room where you can post with ping.fm ;) - Dieter Schwarz
It is a more complicated Twitter - Jared Radosevich
It's a dog without a head. i.e. a website without usability - directeur
As long as Twitter remains unstable, Plurk is the most Twitter-like option out there that also happens to be new kid on the block. - Scott Kitchen
It's essentially Twitter, but the conversations stay self-contained and don't send out a lot of noise to the timeline. There are toys like karma, but most people ignore them. - Starman
Oh, yeah, and it works :D - Starman
@Nathaniel nooo, -1000 makes all my plurk smilies disappear. you bastard!! - Chris Harris
Twitter is to statements as Plurk is to conversations. Even more than twitter, Plurk requires adding friends and interacting with them. This interaction is the reason so many people are falling in love with it. If you want to know more, feel free to send me a plurk: http://www.plurk.com/user/Teeg - Teeg
tried to use it for a few weeks, but the big problem is that they simply don't have the user base. you end up talking to the same 2 people and after a while, everybody is bored and goes back to twitter (if it's up). - Mark Schulz
Pluk is really twitter with consolidated replies and tweets on a timeline instead of in a stream. - Greg Hollingsworth via twhirl
Right now I have over 300 friends on there, only 1 or 2 of them are teenagers, many are computer geeks of one kind of another, a lot are experts in their fields. In the 3 weeks or so that I've been on Plurk, I've already learned more and received more answers to my questions than I ever did on Twitter, even though I actually have more friends listed on Twitter. - Teeg
Plurk is like wurk. - OpenAllNight
Plurk is like Twitter but with participation and interesting conversation. To generalize all Plurk users as "high school kids" is very misleading. If you get on, conversate and make friends you'll see what the buzz is all about. - Patrick Britton
it's Twitter with conversation that you can actually follow. It's got good search functions and none of my Plurk friends are teenagers - Sharon Hurley Hall
It's like Twitter with more conversations, more community, more responsiveness from founders, and less egos and snarkiness. - Mack Collier
"its like an unnecessarily complicated version of twitter that nobody really uses - so maybe it's more like pownce :)" Has 155 friends on Plurk, been there maybe a week. Twitter, 127 followers and I've been there for several months. Not to mention Plurkers actually talk to you, Twitterers just blab on about their own self indulged lives. - Patrick Britton
Plurk is amazing. Many of the comments here are naive and misleading, not to mention ignorant. If you like community interaction Plurk is an awesome choice. - Konstantino
It's a faster, horizontal pownce with a rating system that's very stable. - Nexeus Fatale
No "fail whale." :D - Patrick Britton
It's more fun at times. I tend to get more responses. but it's only cause people are trying to build karma. timeline is an interesting interface that allows a little better view of when in time everything is happening. - Josh
Josh, they're helping you build karma when they respond. They build karma by getting responses on their posts. A neat idea that drives conversation levels up. :) - Teeg
Twitter on crack. or meth. or your mind enhancing chemical of choice. - jane
I agree with Konstantino "Many of the comments here are naive and misleading, not to mention ignorant" For one, my teenage years are long forgotten and my plurk friends are adults with adult conversations… I LOVE Twitter for the sharing of great business information & links but you cannot have nor follow a conversation there. On Plurk you can create or follow conversations from beginning to end if you want, & some conversations are long we discuss all sorts of topics personal and or business, politics.. - Linda Zimmer
silly chat room with emoticons & reaching for a level of *karma* gets ya better emoticons. that being said, there have been good discussions there :) - Barbara K. Baker
oh, and FriendFeed is still better. just not as… silly! - Barbara K. Baker
plurk confuses me, thus I keep playing along. sorry I can't explain it, but that which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. - Peggie Arvidson
Plurk is simply public, threaded chats displayed on a timeline. It's not like twitter except that it limits posts to 140 like twitter. Think IRC but more organized. Think IM but publicized. - nicerobot
I tried to like it - and maybe it’ll grow on me - but for the time being, it will remain a sideline in the grid that is my social graph.
8 Comments
Headphoneguy
June 29th, 2008
at 4:50am
I have tried Plurk and liked it, its the fact that it isnt as intergrated with facebook and the likes that made me go back to twitter.
I actually think both Plurk and Pownce are better than twitter in terms of features. But Twitter is sort of the Google of the microblogging buisness. Its very simple.
I am 16 tho… still i feel kinda unwelcome here right now, since people are like: Plurk is twitter for the Junior high “lot” :(
I also like that Plurk is opening for their users to translate. I signed up to translate to Norwegian. Then i can invite my friends. :)
In short:
Twitter: Most comaptible
Plurk: Best interface
Pownce: Picture and file uploading :)
Put them together: Perfection!
Headphoneguy
June 29th, 2008
at 4:52am
OOPs, sorry
I thought my commen didnt get through
Just delete this ;)
tiffany
June 29th, 2008
at 1:14pm
i’m a little bit of a plurk devotee. like Mack Collier said, plurk is like twitter with more conversations. … or like pownce with less complexity.
i also like that plurk also gives users a more nuanced management of people and noise. you can mute a thread. you can block users. you can friend or fan people.
karma — and whether you gain or lose it — is designed to encourage some behaviors (participation, friend making, interaction) and discourage others (over-plurking, friend whoring).
and yes, i also like that the development team rapidly develops features, is responsive to feedback, and has a notification system in place (plurkbuddy).
friendfeed has *too* much noise for me. following my friends’ friends is overload. haven’t investigated how/whether to turn that off.
i do think plurk would take off with an API, SMS, and some desktop clients. SMS and twhirl are big reasons why i still tweet regularly.
Duncan
June 29th, 2008
at 3:24pm
It’s Twitter for non-techies, least that’s the feeling I’ve gotten. All my non-techie friends have migrated to it as Twitter has failed and are happily using it, so now I find regularly on Plurk.
Don’t let the timeline hold you back either, the mobile version is Twitter like and there has only just recently been an API so we should see more tools soon. In the mean time try my little Plurkair desktop app here, it’s fairly basic, but it brings the mobile client to the desktop for easy use, and it’s delivered me accessible Plurk access (indeed that’s why I put it together)
IRC Freak
June 29th, 2008
at 11:22pm
Chris Pirillo sent out to all his services: l0ckergn0me I signed up for Pownce since ping.fm calls it. hi5, Xanga, Tumblr, Plurk, too. Chris, you simply signed up for services because another calls it? And thenyou claim you don’t like plurk? How can anyone defend this kind of practice? Why do you continue to comment on them? You know they are listening, yet you continue to support spam! I’ve blocked all people who feel the need to do this kind of practice, I don’t need you ads in my
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at 2:25am
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MikeonTV
July 28th, 2008
at 9:09pm
I find the conversation go much further on plurk. People actually respond rather than contemplating giving their thoughts like on twitter and then feeling there is some kind of economy of posts like there is with characters.
Much better for instant gratification I’m finding.
Anyone who would like to join please use this invite! tee hee
http://plurk.com/redeemByURL?from_uid=10549&check=-549016863&s=1