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Re: Plurk Update: the quiet achiever

Smart Boy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:01:50 -0000

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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deknits — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:32:16 -0000

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

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Teeg — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:49:22 -0000

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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AvatarX — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:14:04 -0000

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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EdsNextInstinct — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:52:04 -0000

You're kidding right?

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gsmaverick — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:15:54 -0000

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

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zuzu — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:40:39 -0000

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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sizzler_chetan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:29:08 -0000

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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Ozegold — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:16:51 -0000

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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Starfeeder — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:16:39 -0000

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