Comments on: 6 Reasons Why Plurk Beats Twitter

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:02:19 +0000

I want to bring to your attention http://www.emote.in

Emote is a concept of sharing emotions, built over microblogging with full functionality of a social-networking site and a beautiful scrolling TIMELINE (www.emote.in/misc/images/timeline.JPG)

emote is a microblogging service; which is a platform to –
1. broadcast and share your emotions with your family, friends and with the entire world.
2. Make yourself heard, comment on news, stories and current affair.
3. Share your experiences, memories and events with your friends and family.
4. Connect with different people with similar emotional attributes as yours.
(ex: if atrocities on animals make you sad, connect with others who share the same feeling)
5. Jot-down your experiences. You usually have so many things to say – a constant stream of thoughts, comments and observations running through your head continuously.

6. A wonderful TIMELINE that arranges your messages in a chronological order date by date.
(A prominent micro-blog reviewer thinks so!)
http://emote.in/notice/2595

Sometimes, the important connections we make are the ones we make with ourselves.

By: Angeliki

Angeliki — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:40:56 +0000

thank you Tina

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:28:23 +0000

If you freeze your Karma you will lose one point. So if your Karma is at 100 now it will be at 99 when you freeze it.

You have to plurk at least once every 12 hours to maintain your Karma.

The pig emoticon next to the Karma number probably is part of the theme this member is using. The image possibly replaces the up/down arrow that indicates whether the Karma has recently gone up or down.

By: Angeliki

Angeliki — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:58:02 +0000

my Karma is 100, if I freeze it, do I loose the 1 point? How often do i have to Plurk now?

I saw in another 100 Plurk Karma next to the nbr a cute emoticon of a pig, what is it??

any info on the above questions? thanks all in advance!

By: dsy

dsy — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:50:49 +0000

I just started plurking, though haven’t got any friends yet… :p my friends love facebook better
But plurk in some ways, is better for bloggers in a way that it can show our status actively
although facebook is better in a way of promoting our blog post
I think timeline is indeed the best feature comparing to twitter… i mean, everything seems to piled up in twitter

By: kenji

kenji — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:00:12 +0000

agree, I feel like a teenager when using plurk.

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By: Mia

Mia — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:11:01 +0000

One thing I hate and love about Plurk is Karma. If you just miss a day or two, your karma goes down quite fast. However, when you leave a post and share some links and videos, you karma will jump right back where it started and can even earn more.

By: Moon

Moon — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:45:10 +0000

It sounds like a silly game on a social network.

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:24:57 +0000

I agree, MySpace even nowadays has a terrible interface, which is also because users can edit it so much to make it individual.

However, in my opinion Plurk’s interface is pretty well structured and everything flows – straight forward.

By: Tina

Tina — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:22:23 +0000

There is a mobile version of Plurk available and it looks a lot more like Twitter because the timeline is gone. But it retains conversations as comments to updates.

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:28:02 +0000

Reading updates from my friends in pure text is enough for me. Don’t need to have a timeline or direct links to youtube or karma thing.
But it seems nice…perhaps a bit complicate for microblogging.

By: eagle

eagle — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:19:35 +0000

I like Plurk’s interface, but what I love about Twitter is that it can be mobile and it has lots of third-party apps.

They’re also saying Plurk is the Twitter for teens (smileys, etc).
So that is to say Twitter is more mature?

In terms of popularity, Plurk’s reign is only within Southeast Asia, compared to the worldwide renown of Twitter. Check out this link http://tr.im/jq6m.

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By: Titanium Pen

Titanium Pen — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:19:57 +0000

Hm, seems a bit complicated for me…

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By: Za3mOn

Za3mOn — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:54:38 +0000

thanks for this review. i like this!

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:26:58 +0000

Seriously? That’s got to be the most ridiculous rebuttal I’ve ever heard. I use Plurk and love it – and the best thing someone can say when presented with the wealth of features that it offers over other services is “the name is dumb and the logo (which YOU CAN CHANGE, by the way) is silly.”

Wow.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:38:55 +0000

Meh. Tried it.

Several of the things you list as advantages, I find to be disadvantages. Conversations? Sorry, that’s not something I find useful. Karma? An artificial stimulus to post more? Not a good thing in my book. Badges? Unlocking features? Juvenile and unwanted.

Integrated video and pictures are okay, but it’s really no big deal to me to click a link and open a new window.

In the end, I think it’s silly to write about why one piece of software “beats” another. It’s all in what best meets the users’ needs, and clearly we need different things.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:07:54 +0000

That and their interface is a throwback to the dark days of MySpace. What a junkyard.

By: Daryl Tay

Daryl Tay — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:53:28 +0000

Totally right! In fact Plurk has more traffic than Twitter according to some stats here in Singapore because of the whole threaded conversations feature that you just don’t get with Twitter.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:47:25 +0000

A lot of people will never take this service seriously because they have a stupid name that contains the word “lurk” (not exactly a great connotation) and a stupid logo (A headless pig? What were they THINKING?). You can beat the bushes for them all you want but with those two things going against them they will never be the service that replaces anything else on the ‘net (UNLESS they change their name and logo, but they probably have too much invested in the brand).