What is Plurk?

Plurk like Twitter, is a micro-blogging site. They both have similar functions but it to say that Plurk’s has a better layout and format style to provide users a different experience. Launched in May 2008 and is created by the A Team. Plurk’s goal is to create a fun, social, laid back and collaborative community that consists of genuine and positive people.

The different between Plurk and Twitter.

Karma function stands for regular updates and popularity. If user does not update at least once every 12 hours or they will lose followers, thus Karma will drop. With regular updates, responses to user plurk and with the increasing number of followers and friends the Karma will slowly rise up. The higher Karma reflects the better plurker the user is thus it entitles user with more emoticons, which are widely used in the Plurk community.

List layout, Plurk places user’s updates on a time line illustrated.Rather than in a vertical list (Twitter), Plurks updates appear on a horizontal timeline. When user scroll through the timeline they will pass date borders. Scrolling over a Plurk, user will able to see what the exact post that’s was been posted.

Statues updates with other social media applications. Plurks has an interesting feature that connects user Plurk updates to his/her Facebook, Multiply and Twitter accounts. That way user can stay in touch with their friends on other sites without having to make individual updates to each of these, thus it save time.

Recognizes links to other share applications. Plurks recognize links to YouTube, Flickr, ImageShack, and Photobucket and includes them in user update. Thus  followers have no longer needed to open a new window to view the link, they can view url of the photos or videos within Plurk. Therefore it is extremely convenient.

Neated conversation display. The actual conversations between user through replies are associated with the original update. Thus enable user to have a clear conversation between the other user and not getting lost through the tremendous updates. Something which Twitter does not have, as the @replies are showcase in the vertical layout together with the other user updates.

Even with much difference function that’s available in Plurk, why is Twitter better than Plurk?

The below image has show that Twitter has gain more popularity with the amount of  unique visitor compare to Plurk. Plurk may be successful in creating a warm and chatty environment. But compared it with Twitter, it is a less effective information-sharing platform. Thus with the growing community of online business users, Twitter is obviously the preferred choice for going viral.

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