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

-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

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

http://www.geekfridge.com/?p=1… – Starman

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

http://banannie.com/blog/2008/… – 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