After my falling out with twitter, I began seeking an alternative micro blogging site to satiate my micro blogging needs. Yeah, men have needs too, micro blogging obviously not withstanding. Obviously.
I started out with Pownce, which I do really like. However, my strange nerd man needs were somehow left unsatisfied. It’s kind of a hard to articulate, but I was sort of just left wanting, if you will. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to start hating on Pownce now. It’s a great site, but I wasn’t really feeling the micro-blogginess of it (yes I’m inventing words now. want to fight about it?). Also, it’s pretty sluggish.
I caught an episode of attack of the show over the weekend, where they did an expose on Plurk. At first, I was thinking big whoop, yet another twitter clone, but then it dawned on me, I’m looking for a twitter clone, but what I found was Plurk has so much more to offer.
Things I like about Plurk:
- It works
- The timeline based UI is super polished, and very shiny!
- The karma rewards system is pretty damn cool, and gives me some incentive to use it often.
- It’s very responsive. Hopefully that will hold up as the site gains more users, and traffic
- Replies on Plurks are allowed
- Nifty customization features with increased Karma
- It works
Things I don’t like:
So far the only thing that I found wrong with Plurk is the invite feature. I sent out a boat load of email invites, and no one got them. I had my friend check his spam folder too, and it wasn’t there. Not sure what’s up with that, but I have a support email in.
It seems their API isn’t quite finished yet either, but at least they’re working on it.
If you’re feeling the Twitter woes like me, give it a try, I think you’ll be very impressed with it.
