Comments on: Plurking From The Shadow Of Twitter

By: Plurk Sounds Like Poop at Gypsy Bandito

Plurk Sounds Like Poop at Gypsy Bandito — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:39:56 +0000

[...] getting tired of people hating on Twitter for having problems. I mean, yeah, they’re having trouble scaling, but so f**king what? Who [...]

By: forumistan

forumistan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:28:39 +0000

You are totally right that, Plurk will never reach the saturation level that Twitter could possibly reach.

By: Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:25:46 +0000

Dittos to preferring Twitter interface and wanting to harpoon the whale. (But I figured some distant Indian relatives already killed their alloted one whale per year.)

I received the same, Plurk crash upon signing up last week. Wondering how useful it would have been at SMX via phone?

A friend just showed me his Plurk widget on a site, that is super cool. He’s using it to show a timeline of his daughter’s life.

Yet, what is that Plurk logo? The bulls-eye target with the bone sticking through the body of an…elephant? Surely this turns off vegetarians, which I’m not, because I already enjoyed whale meat this year.

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By: forumistan

forumistan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:50:22 +0000

I prefer Twitter, too. But Plurk has nothing less than Twitter…

By: Darin R. McClure

Darin R. McClure — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:55:47 +0000

Plurk its everything Twitter should be…

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:56:08 +0000

I completely agree with Tiffany. Twitter is mote common and familiar to me. Till now I’m not ready to replace it for Plurk

By: Chad Everett

Chad Everett — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:16:08 +0000

The two are similar, yet different – but to answer the most common complaint, there is definitely an API at Plurk. Witness hellotxt and ping.fm, both of which can post to the service. It’s just not openly documented (yet). I’m sure it will come.

For a service that’s been rampant in the wild for a week-and-a-half, it seems to be holding its own.

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By: Sean Maguire

Sean Maguire — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:08:15 +0000

Oops. Hit send before proofing. Corrections:

@rishil – I prefer Twitter as well.

@Brian – “…like an air traffic control station”.

By: Sean Maguire

Sean Maguire — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:05:01 +0000

@rishil – I prefer Plurk as well. Interestingly, Maki has stated that even though he has several thousand followers on Twitter, he gets significantly greater direct responses on Plurk. There’s definitely a marketing message in there.

@Brian – I agree that they’re different animals. I still love the simplicity of Twitter. Plus, I only have the bandwidth for one time waster in my life. I just wish Twitter could get their act together faster. Plurk feels more light an air traffic control station to me. I do believe they’ll have an API in the near future.

@Chris – The irony thickens! Go figure. Andy has already posted on it as well. Touche!

@Trexpenn – Looks like you and Chris are in the same boat. It must be the Marketing Pilgrim traffic!

@Tiffany – You’re not alone. I think a lot of people are routing for Twitter to pull it together.

@Natalie – Maybe you can help me “man the harpoon”!

By: Natalie Norton

Natalie Norton — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:22:41 +0000

I’m scared to leave twitter as I’m building a following there, albeit a small one, but the growth has been rapid. HOWEVER, I too am SO OVER said whale. SO.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:34:25 +0000

I’m still thinking that Twitter is more familiar and user friendly than Plurk. And I still have no reason to find the substitute.

By: trexpenn

trexpenn — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:28:11 +0000

I decided to check out Plurk upon reading this post. It looks cool and I was able to sign up but greeted with an error message when I tried uploading my avatar. Hope they fix it fast.

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By: Chris Bartow

Chris Bartow — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:24:19 +0000

I saw this post via Twitter and I figured I would finally sign up for Plurk only to be greeted by:

“Plurk is currently unavailable. We are working on bringing the site up again. We apologize for the inconvenience.”

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:16:08 +0000

They are two different animals.

Plurk will never reach the saturation level that Twitter could possibly reach (if they can get there uptime handled properly) in my opinion because they have no API.

By: rishil

rishil — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:05:50 +0000

Personally I dont like Plurk – I prefer Twitters layout and usability, its easy and straight forward plus the API has generated some excellent applications.

Though I must say they were quick on the draw when they introduced the twitter friends invite app http://www.plurk.com/Friends/twitterImport

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