Comments on: The Main Difference Between Twitter and Plurk (to me)

By: Ms. Single Mama

Ms. Single Mama — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:04:03 +0000

When I told a blogging buddy to get on Twitter his first question was – “How many hits do you get from it each day?”

I told him – who cares about the hits, look at what it’s doing for my blog. My Twitter widget adds value to my blog because my readers can see what I’m up to and ultimately feel more connected to my personality. My tweets are also showing up in the search engines and linking back to my blog.

With that said, I also LOVE Plurk and think it’s actually easier to use and more entertaining than Twitter.

I’m new to Plurk though and would love some friends – here’s my profile:

http://www.plurk.com/user/MsSingleMama

By: Brent2

Brent2 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:38:04 +0000

Plurk reminds me of comments in a blog and Twitter seems more like an IM variant.

Personally, I’m starting to like Plurk better, though I don’t have nearly as many “friends” as I do on Twitter. Hopefully that’ll change as it grows.

By: blogversary

blogversary — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:48:27 +0000

Thank you for the comparison. Maybe I AM an old fuddy duddy and can’t hang with the Plurk crowd. Can I cry motherhood has made my brain slow?

By: Shazzer

Shazzer — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:57:00 +0000

I signed up essentially to secure my username as see what all “the buzz” was about. But for me, plurk’s appeal is limited as long as my only option for interacting with it is via a web browser. Like @Heath, I don’t do much twittering from my computer and am unlikely to plurk much from it either.

By: Silence

Silence — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:46:34 +0000

Switched from Twitter to Plurk and didn’t regret it. IM problems and downtimes of Twitter became more than just annoying. I get it when Plurk has minor problems – it is new. But Twitter is an old service that was already running fine for a long time – how bad should it be if they can’t fix it for several weeks already?

I disagree with people saying that Plurk is a toy – no way it is. Plurk is more like a personal mini-forum where you and people that you allow to can create topics and kick off discussions. Plurk can be Twitter (check out its mobile version), but Twitter can’t be Plurk.

By: team ray

team ray — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:30:38 +0000

both are glorified IM messagers

i dont get hype for either

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:40:56 +0000

Has anyone tried beenup2.com? It’s essentially micro blogging with your camera phone. You can stay in touch with friends and share your trips too.

By: Cesar NOel

Cesar NOel — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:26:02 +0000

Well I would agree that both services are great but in terms of “organized” I think Plurk would win outright.

By: Heath

Heath — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:46:32 +0000

I found plurk a real pain to find people. I found some friends but thats because I knew their id’s already from an announcement on twitter. The message time line was a bit confusing at first but after using it for a short while it made sense and is easier to follow than twitters. I went to enable the mobile messaging in plurk, OOPS it’s not available. That to me is what makes twitter so useful right now. I get all of my updates on my phone. I rarely twitter while at my computer.

By: arshad

arshad — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:34:30 +0000

plurk is better than twitter . i tried twitter earlier but got bored in a day but plurk is exciting .i like the interface it provides .

By: ChinaMatt

ChinaMatt — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:26:08 +0000

I guess I’ll have to give plurk a try. I’m really getting into all the new internety thingies slowly lately… and I know I used a lot of Ys there.

By: Leigh Ann

Leigh Ann — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:06:32 +0000

Woops … put the wrong link into the Website box. This is the right one. Doh.

By: Leigh Ann

Leigh Ann — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:05:41 +0000

Thank you for this post. A lot of people have been talking about trying Plurk on Twitter, but I hadn’t yet seen a comparison of the two like this. It’s helpful.

Leigh Ann Hubbard
Managing Editor
James Hubbard’s My Family Doctor

By: Ben Jacob

Ben Jacob — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:43:22 +0000

Another main difference between those two are the downtime..
Users will not get a downtime like Twitter’s anywhere else

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:44:26 +0000

I have never used Twitter, and hadn’t heard about Plurk until this post. Based on what you write here, Plurk seems like a better service, IMO.

By: GettyCash

GettyCash — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:48:57 +0000

Just created account with Plurk. I have never used it before. Twitter is a nice tool for business use.

By: Ken Stewart (ChangeForge)

Ken Stewart (ChangeForge) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:19:37 +0000

Darren, great correllation here… I think you really nailed the isolationist issue with Twitter. It’s a great broadcast, but I really feel like it’s a lot of people talking really loud… I think for this reason, Plurk is more fun and Twitter is more about promoting yourself – from my meager experience.

I wrote a post about about 2 weeks ago here: http://www.changeforge.com/2008/06/03/twitter-ego-plurk-fun/

I don’t think Twitter is bad, just different in its application. Also, the conversation on Twitter is not as substantial just yet, but in only 2 weeks, I am beginning to see a more tigh knit community and deeper discussions – well as deep as a “chat room” application can give you at least.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:36:28 +0000

I do like the Plurk way of keeping a conversation together, but what I like about Twitter is you can see a conversation already in progress that you might want to jump into. You might just catch one thing someone said 10 lines down and jump in. With Plurk, you would have to click on each individual Plurk and read each one to see if you had something to contribute. Way more time consuming (even with as few followers/followees as I have. I don’t like how you really don’t know the whole conversation until you click on the Plurk.

Example conversation:

Nicole feels hungry
Jane says try Subway
John says Check out this really good article about Tomatoes being recalled

All you see is “Nicole feels hungry” and if you don’t have much time, you likely won’t click on that one.

With Twitter, you might catch the tomato being recalled after you stepped away from your computer, at least.

By: Timothy Carter

Timothy Carter — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:56:31 +0000

Now after reading this Darren, I’m just going to have to experiment with Plurk. Thanks for the showing the value/difference between the two.

By: Stephen Glauser

Stephen Glauser — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:24:28 +0000

I’ve just started using Plurk, but it seems very busy to me at the moment. I haven’t quite got a grasp on it yet, but we’ll see how things go.