Plurking from a mobile phone works fine. I can't speak for other phones, but I used the mobile version of the site (plurk.com/m) on my iPhone.
Bwana
· 1 year ago
Was just about to say that justG. Was using plurk.com/m last night on my iPhone.
acclimedia
· 1 year ago
The reason Twitter is so popular is not because it's slick or has a cool design; it's because it's simple to use and can quickly and effectively connect people. Pownce, Tumblr, Jaiku... and now Plurk may be more colorful or creatively executed, but in the end, function will win out over form, and those 'gimmicky' elements like karma points and a visual timeline (which I still contend is confusing by the way) will lose their luster. Twitter is here to stay!
mkoby
· 1 year ago
"...but in the end, function will win out over form..."
Wouldn't Twitter actually need to "function" for "function" to win out? Twitter for the past 3 weeks is really starting to break at the seams. And things are going to get worse before they get better. Twitter basically needs to redesign it's architecture from the ground up to be able to effectively save itself.
BTW, as I type this, the Twitter website is once again inaccessible (so is the API as Twhirl is not pulling tweets either)
Adriana
· 1 year ago
I honestly never got into twitter and I don't see the point. Granted I've never delved myself into it but the way I see it is... twitter is letting your friends know what you're doing right? By typing little sentences "I am going to the store" "I am currently at work"
It's like a site for status' as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't use either of these sites. I can let my friends know what I'm doing on facebook through status msgs.. and maybe something that twitter should or could look into is parterning up with facebook to either do an app with status format... or status powered by twitter. Something to that effect. Maybe there is more to twitter then I'm giving credit to but it just seems like another site to me and a waste to constantly update.
Eric Rice
· 1 year ago
Yeah that was always hilarious to me that a *FEATURE* from another app became an app on its own. In fact, it's hilarious (and irritating) to see the status bars on Facebook get spammed by people who post their twitter statuses there. Like good grief, control yourselves.
Twitter is having problems because we the users turned it into what it wasn't supposed to be: a chat room, instead of that quirky little 140 character update(trust me, you can get around that limit, just post over and over).
Twitter is a bit retarded in functionality, but in the social space, it ain't about function. It's about social. It's the trendy hot spot where you go to be seen (well myspace/facebook-- oh nm, it's a losing argument), it's a trendy hot spot for the early web/tech adopters go to be seen. The iPod isn't the best -featured- mp3 player, it just has the sexiness and the social power to command the world domination (for now).
Plurk is fun, shiny, and prolly will stick if the big names show up.
How fickle we humans are. ;)
(Sorry for the huge-ish comment, doh!)
DustyDog
· 1 year ago
Who are the big names?
heddy
· 1 year ago
twitter won't be here to stay if it cannot solve its technical problems. I can't get in to twitter right now. half the time i've tried over the last week, it's been down. and they still have the IM tracking alerts offline. What's the point in everyone trying to use a service which won't stay online?
salmonmoose
· 1 year ago
@Adriana there is a twitter facebook app letting you update your status to your latest undirected twitter update. http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/
I think the underlying problem here is the same as we had with IM (are still having with IM) where the networks can't communicate. If most of my friends are on MSN, then it makes sense for me to use MSN.
I know people on twitter, therefore, that's what I use.
Now, should the micro-bloggers get together and say "hey, let's share" and give us addresses like salmonmoose@twitter.com then I could have friends on all the networks, and choose the one with the features that suit me best. Kind of like email.
xxdesmus
· 1 year ago
Plurk feels like the MySpace of microblogging. It feels too juvenile with the cartoon character things. The timeline advancing to the right (instead of the more logical left direction as time progresses) is a little thing that irritates me.
David Jacobs
· 1 year ago
I don't like Plurk. Just another pretty face and not all that pretty really. I'll take functionality over style any day.
@JoeHobot
· 1 year ago
I LIKE PLURK! :)
Joined this morning and the only thing I am afraid is that if they get hit as Twitter they might have same problems. yet plurk is more fun then twitter to be honest. Only thing I need on plurk now is twitter feed :)
kgjames
· 1 year ago
I agree. Plurk is more interesting than Twitter, but is that going to be enough to make it a relevant & competitive service? Guess w/all of Twitter's outages, anything is possible.
Just need plurk to integrate with FriendFeed, and I'll be set.
Stuey
· 1 year ago
*Grumble, grumble* Is there anyway to filter out these Twitter type stories? ;) :) :P
Renaud
· 1 year ago
Remember that many people never go to Twitter.com and are still Twitters. I haven't been to the site in months. I use Twitterific on the Mac and Twinkle on my iPhone. Twitters success is in it's open API and the ability to stay connected to Twitter in a way that you like: IM, SMS, web app, desktop app, mobile app, etc. Plurk has almost none of this... yet.
WayneSutton
· 1 year ago
I disagree with most of the negative comments about plurk, plus we have to remember that plurk is at phase one/early beta. More features and usability issues will be fixed as more users join the network and start providing feedback.
Between running a business and getting the kids to and from nursery, fed, etc, there isn't time for social networking.
Are all Twitter / Plurk users unemployed / students, or corporate employees who are avoiding work?
Eric Rice
· 1 year ago
Mark: Replace the the phrase 'social networking' with 'social life' and it all makes sense.
Some of us don't actually have time for a social life for the very reasons you state. And some of us don't *want* to.
Your point is very valid.
Nora Rubinoff
· 1 year ago
Yes, it looks intriguing. But.....I could not successfully use their "find your friends and add them to Plurk" via entering Gmail or AIM credentials. And there was something buggy about the profile area too -- I'd add information, click "save" and it would be gone. I want to try Plurk, but it's not being too friendly with my Mac and Firefox.
Hey I have no friends to Plurk. So add me so I can see how this works. It's not bad but it's no Twitter by a long shot.
Rika
· 1 year ago
Twitter users are in fact swarming over...Kind of overwhelming really.
Peter Smith
· 1 year ago
Mark: "Does anyone really have time to use these things?" Well, you took the time to read and post here... it's all about what you choose to do online.
Eric: "the users turned [Twitter] into what it wasn't supposed to be" ... dang those pesky users, eh? Always doing whatever they want, never following instructions or reading the manual... It doesn't make sense to my mind to say how Twitter (or any social app) is supposed to be used. It will get used however the users choose. They'll push and they'll prod to find what it's best for, find what it's limits are. Twitter's challenge now is to recognize how the service is being used and adapt appropriately.
Billpowell
· 1 year ago
I like it a whole lot better, and while it is probably the same thing as twitter, I just didn't get twitter. This I get, I love the time lines comments are easy to make and I have enjoyed what I have seen.
The question isn't does it have enough beef for the "Power users" but can it make guys like me who didn't really get twitter want to use it. Oh yeah and Can it stay online for a week without crashing.
I'm on the fence. The point here is why people will choose to use either service, or both of them. My guess is that Plurk users will have different needs, thoughts, and ideas about what they want from the service, compared with what Twitter users want from Twitter. So the two will evolve and build their communities. It'll be interesting to see the degree of overlap.
Dick Davies
· 1 year ago
No API and it'll die. That simple.
Otherwise it's just a slightly differently rendered Twitter wannabe. without downtime. or userbase.
Wallen
· 1 year ago
Why oh why can't somebody just use the Twitter API to display tweets on a timeline.... another service is not needed just to prove a visual interface
Plurk was launched beginning of May. Just wait until everyone hears about it. Definitely worth it; a better system is a better system which eventually brings even the most skeptical.
William Shakespeare
· 1 year ago
Plurk? Most fruitfully: i am there.
Descartes
· 1 year ago
I've never used Twitter and just found Plurk a day or two ago. It is an odd little place that seems to serve no real purpose-but I keep finding myself checking back to see what new random nonsense has showed up.
jeslange
· 1 year ago
well, i guess you didn't like it since you haven't been back since 6/7
Cee Bee
· 1 year ago
i (used to) like twitter, but i can't seem to get into plurk. seems more of a folly than something useful, but then again perhaps i'm missing the point?
mss @ Zanthan Gardens
· 1 year ago
A lot of my Twitter pals have gone over to Plurk. They like the threaded conversations. I'd prefer to use IM for that.
Apparently, it's all about what you want from the tool. Some people like cutesy and lots of emoticons and a heavy emphasis with on the social in social networking.
I prefer the log file format of Twitter precisely because I use it as a repository of little notes. I like seeing what my friends are up to but I don't want to be drawn into a lot of long conversations with them. In fact, I signed up for Twitter because I wanted to know at a glance what my friends were up to without having to interrupt them (or be interrupted by them) with IM, email, or a phone call.
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Wouldn't Twitter actually need to "function" for "function" to win out? Twitter for the past 3 weeks is really starting to break at the seams. And things are going to get worse before they get better. Twitter basically needs to redesign it's architecture from the ground up to be able to effectively save itself.
BTW, as I type this, the Twitter website is once again inaccessible (so is the API as Twhirl is not pulling tweets either)
It's like a site for status' as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't use either of these sites. I can let my friends know what I'm doing on facebook through status msgs.. and maybe something that twitter should or could look into is parterning up with facebook to either do an app with status format... or status powered by twitter. Something to that effect. Maybe there is more to twitter then I'm giving credit to but it just seems like another site to me and a waste to constantly update.
Twitter is having problems because we the users turned it into what it wasn't supposed to be: a chat room, instead of that quirky little 140 character update(trust me, you can get around that limit, just post over and over).
Twitter is a bit retarded in functionality, but in the social space, it ain't about function. It's about social. It's the trendy hot spot where you go to be seen (well myspace/facebook-- oh nm, it's a losing argument), it's a trendy hot spot for the early web/tech adopters go to be seen. The iPod isn't the best -featured- mp3 player, it just has the sexiness and the social power to command the world domination (for now).
Plurk is fun, shiny, and prolly will stick if the big names show up.
How fickle we humans are. ;)
(Sorry for the huge-ish comment, doh!)
I think the underlying problem here is the same as we had with IM (are still having with IM) where the networks can't communicate. If most of my friends are on MSN, then it makes sense for me to use MSN.
I know people on twitter, therefore, that's what I use.
Now, should the micro-bloggers get together and say "hey, let's share" and give us addresses like salmonmoose@twitter.com then I could have friends on all the networks, and choose the one with the features that suit me best. Kind of like email.
Joined this morning and the only thing I am afraid is that if they get hit as Twitter they might have same problems. yet plurk is more fun then twitter to be honest. Only thing I need on plurk now is twitter feed :)
Just need plurk to integrate with FriendFeed, and I'll be set.
I'm http://www.plurk.com/user/waynesutton on plurk.
Between running a business and getting the kids to and from nursery, fed, etc, there isn't time for social networking.
Are all Twitter / Plurk users unemployed / students, or corporate employees who are avoiding work?
Some of us don't actually have time for a social life for the very reasons you state. And some of us don't *want* to.
Your point is very valid.
Hey I have no friends to Plurk. So add me so I can see how this works. It's not bad but it's no Twitter by a long shot.
Eric: "the users turned [Twitter] into what it wasn't supposed to be" ... dang those pesky users, eh? Always doing whatever they want, never following instructions or reading the manual... It doesn't make sense to my mind to say how Twitter (or any social app) is supposed to be used. It will get used however the users choose. They'll push and they'll prod to find what it's best for, find what it's limits are. Twitter's challenge now is to recognize how the service is being used and adapt appropriately.
The question isn't does it have enough beef for the "Power users" but can it make guys like me who didn't really get twitter want to use it. Oh yeah and Can it stay online for a week without crashing.
http://plurk.com/redeemByURL?from_uid=16932&...
Otherwise it's just a slightly differently rendered Twitter wannabe. without downtime. or userbase.
http://plurk.com/redeemByURL?from_uid=28490&...
Apparently, it's all about what you want from the tool. Some people like cutesy and lots of emoticons and a heavy emphasis with on the social in social networking.
I prefer the log file format of Twitter precisely because I use it as a repository of little notes. I like seeing what my friends are up to but I don't want to be drawn into a lot of long conversations with them. In fact, I signed up for Twitter because I wanted to know at a glance what my friends were up to without having to interrupt them (or be interrupted by them) with IM, email, or a phone call.
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