Plurktastic
Lately the mini blogging service Twitter has been having server issues and people have been considering jumping ship. Finding a decent alternative has been easy, thanks to Melissa. She found another mini blogging service called Plurk. Melissa shared the URL with some of us in the Quilting Bee chat room. At first I was skeptical and thought, “oh yet another dull social networking site”. I was wrong, Plurk is far from dull.
It is not just any place where you can send mini updates. Your updates are displayed on a timeline, you can change the wording by choosing a coloured phrase from a drop-down menu, such as “is”, “loves” or “likes”. You can even change the style of your timeline/profile page. There is also a very handy feature where you can organise your friends into “cliques” or groups. You can also be somebodys “fan” or they can be yours.
Another feature that Twitter doesn’t have is the karma system. By posting plurks, replying to peoples plurks and referring friends you can earn karma points. With these points you can have access to new timeline designs and other little characters that you can display in the top right-hand corner of your timeline.
There is a handy Firefox plugin for Plurk which I use, to make the plurking process easier. I have found a Wordpress plugin, too!
If you are tired of Twitter and want something more exciting with heaps more features give Plurk a try.
Melissa
June 17th, 2008 at 1:53 pmOMG…I fail. I was going to blog about this. XP That’s ok, you are allowed. I give you my blessing for this blog post.
I rather like Plurk, I think. Twitter is cool and simplistic, but Plurk is just too fun to play with! You know, maybe I will blog about it as well. ;D I’ll link your article of course.