Comments on: Plurk vs Twitter

By: piska

piska — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:18:59 +0000

I have twitter and Plurk account, but i like Plurk ten Twitter, maybe because i have a lot of friend using Plurk. I loved the commenting system, and try to make more karma so i can get more emoticon.

By: Nat Marie

Nat Marie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:42:41 +0000

I use the both of them. A lot of my friends still use Twitter and only Twitter, so I can’t leave them assed out in the cold, but I also met some people who use Plurk, so I guess it’s the best of both worlds maybe.

I love Plurk’s commenting system. The thing I’ve noticed though is that it’s not compatible at all with Opera. Works fine with everything else, but if I try to do anything in Plurk in Opera it will be 10 times harder.

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By: Pierre-Philippe Martin

Pierre-Philippe Martin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:50:50 +0000

Thank you for this interesting comparison of those two microblogging platforms. I agree that Plurk is a little too smart for its own good, and would also favor Twitter’s simplicity and larger network for now. Also, I have had problems with Plurk on one of my PCs where the “timeline” remains blank!

By: griffmiester

griffmiester — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:05:12 +0000

I’m completely agreeing with you on this. I have a plurk account, and I have a twitter account. Plurk I’m finding needs more time to be involved. Time which I don’t have.
I like that with twitter I can ignore it or use it as I need/want. What bugs me with it at the moment is all the issues, the outages, the reduced number of hourly API calls…
I’m sticking with twitter for the time being.

By: Derrick Kwa

Derrick Kwa — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:18:42 +0000

I don’t really like having to start all over again as well, though I’m trying. The thing is, I think Plurk could really make it a lot easier to transfer your Twitter network.

Considering that most of us use the same userids on various sites, it shouldn’t be too hard for them to create a one-click import tool. They could use the Twitter API, scan the list of people you are following, and search for people by that username on Plurk. It wouldn’t be perfect, but it would make things much easier.

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Logo design — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:42:53 +0000

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