Top 6 Reasons I Like Plurk More Than Twitter
So in effort to stay on top of the latest Web 2.0 trends, I gave Plurk a spin today (editors note: I almost spelled spin sphinn, I think I need a break from social media..lol). Plurk is like Twitter in 3D. Here are the 6 things I like most about it:
1) So far it doesn't go down as often as Twitter.
2) It's easier to follow conversations because of the interface.
3) You can organize your friends into cliques in order to keep your work and personal life separate (which is key, whenever I am on Twitter I feel like the guy in Lethal Weapon II who has two phones - one to the bad guys and one to the police...lol).
4) It's easier to share (embed) videos from YouTube and pictures from Flickr using Plurk's interface.
5) You can use emoticons in Plurk (which I think is good for better text communication)
6) The timeline helps you put conversations and comments into better perspective than Twitter's linear interface.
bonus features -
1) because it's so new, I got the user name I wanted..lol.
2) the funky characters are pretty amusing
I am sure I will come up with some more although Plurk like Twitter has no direct SEO value because you can't (so far I can't..lol) get a URL to show up on your profile. But this is a really cool new tool that everyone should check out. Especially if you like Twitter! Have a great weekend!
Catfish
1) So far it doesn't go down as often as Twitter.
2) It's easier to follow conversations because of the interface.
3) You can organize your friends into cliques in order to keep your work and personal life separate (which is key, whenever I am on Twitter I feel like the guy in Lethal Weapon II who has two phones - one to the bad guys and one to the police...lol).
4) It's easier to share (embed) videos from YouTube and pictures from Flickr using Plurk's interface.
5) You can use emoticons in Plurk (which I think is good for better text communication)
6) The timeline helps you put conversations and comments into better perspective than Twitter's linear interface.
bonus features -
1) because it's so new, I got the user name I wanted..lol.
2) the funky characters are pretty amusing
I am sure I will come up with some more although Plurk like Twitter has no direct SEO value because you can't (so far I can't..lol) get a URL to show up on your profile. But this is a really cool new tool that everyone should check out. Especially if you like Twitter! Have a great weekend!
Catfish
posted by Catfish at
11:19 AM
3 Comments:
A good number of Twitter "power users" have been giving Plurk a look over recent weeks with mixed reviews. I totally agree about the down time thing. Twitter is scrambling to try to put the infrastructure in place to scale. Although neither app has direct SEO relevance, they are great tools to drive traffic to your site as well as to monitor your brand (see what people are saying about you). Will be interesting to see how these two tools continue to develop.
I just want to be able to feed my twitter stuff into Plurk and it would be perfect...lol.
Thanks! I didn't even know about this one yet. Will give it a look see. Sounds good.
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