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  Starfeeder

  12 months ago

  I love Plurk :)
  
  It to me has more of a sense of community, while on Twitter its kinda like everyone yelling at each other.... I dunno just my 2cents
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  Ozegold

  12 months ago

  Thanks for the post!
  
  I've found the mix of people, and their interests, on Plurk to be quite fascinating.
  
  While the timeline might be off putting for some, it is conducive to conversation, and is probably one of the main reasons for its fast growing popularity.
  
  Cheers
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  Chetan

  12 months ago

  Good to see a plurk related wordpress widget :)
  Plurk is really addicting, and the communication becomes almost similar to the conferences that we see in IM services..
  
  I am just loving Plurk and its features.
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  zuzu

  12 months ago

  My interaction on Plurk is pretty much with people I know in real life, or with others that my friends know. It is far more intimate than Twitter - in fact no comparison. My responses in Twitter are much more calculated and less off the cuff.
  
  I do have a hard time with the behaviour in Plurk - for example if I am replying to a Plurk and accidentally click outside the reply box, my response vanishes. These sort of behaviours need to be addressed, as well as the silly Karma thing which I completely ignore.
  
  I am completley private in Plurk as the intimacy of my comments is something I don't want available to all.
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  gsmaverick

  12 months ago

  Located in Canada?? Wow, I thought we didn't have tech companies up here!
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  Ed

  12 months ago

  You're kidding right?
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  Avatar

  12 months ago

  Plurk originally benefited not only from twitter woes but also from pownce woes. some of the most engaged users in plurk used to be most of the time in pownce. i include myself into that camp.
  
  pownce has a entire month of unstable behavior and a on and off API that caused some of pownce users to jump shift.
  
  and while plurk may never catch up to twitter it is now third just after friendfeed and already bigger than jaiku and pownce. quite impressive for a service that don`t has a API or official desktop app but that was smart enough to have a good mobile version and a good widget.
  
  of and have you checked that it got 10 sites dedicated to plurk related things?
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  Teeg

  11 months ago

  Great article, Duncan! Thanks so much for the mention! SU Comments Guide has actually grown to 4 main parts now (the last section is on mobile plurking), and a printable sheet of graphics since you can add the codes but can't see the graphics on mobile.
  
  Plurk has quickly become my favorite social connecting site, the interaction there is simply amazing. What is surprising is that less than 10% of Plurk users are teens. Perhaps even more surprising, there are quite a few users age 50 and up.
  
  There are indeed a large group of knitters, but there are also a good number of early adopters hanging around. To me, it is the ideal mix for a site, techies and non-techies all hanging out and making friends. In fact, it reminds me a bit of when I first started at SU, where there was also an eclectic mix of people learning from and enjoying each others interests.
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  deknits

  11 months ago

  @Teeg: Just wanted to point out that lots of knitters *are* techies and early adopters.
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  Smart Boy

  10 months ago

  Plurk has been great to me thus far. The wonderful people, fluid design/interface, lack of ads - it all makes for a great social media experience.
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