Why Plurk Is Better Than Twitter

26 Jun, 2008 Social Networking, Stuff I Like

I started out this whole “social” networking experiment on Twitter because I had some friends there. I found that I could spend many hours watching the feed, checking out links that other people posted and posting my own and trying to network with other Twitterers. What I quickly learned was that Twitter, is not really that “social” at all, responses are far and few between unless you directly comment on someones tweet, I never knew if people liked my tweets or if they even checked out a link I posted. Then completely by accident I discovered Plurk. What makes Plurk different is that you get feedback, almost instantly, to anything that you post. I have been using Plurk for less than a month and I already have more friends there than on Twitter and we actually communicate! The whole Plurk mechanism for social networking is far superior to Twitters, by it’s very nature you can’t help but leave feed back and enter into discussions with people. If Twitter is going to survive the social networking boom that is going on right now it is going to have to offer up more unique perspective, because right now it is falling behind.

Here is a screenshot of my Plurk page, it has got a really great user interface: