Plurk is Topic Centered Twitter is User Centered
Plurkerati.com made a comment that led to an interesting discussion on why I prefer Plurk over Twitter (the Plurk Page).
As I’ve noted, I’ve not engaged in conversations beyond 2 Tweets deep at Twitter, and a huge driver of my satisfaction with Plurk is I don’t have to click 10 times over 10 Tweets to follow a conversation.
A recent Plurkshop, for example, alluded to certain internet celebrities who use Twitter for announcements and to get people to visit their websites. Not a bad thing to use for Twitter, but then you don’t get much out of that beyond “hey! I just wrote this! check this out! buy my book too!”
A smart move on Plurk is that it (by design or by accident) creates a TOPIC-centered discussion not a USER-centered discussion because it can get annoying to see overt fawning of some internet guru/celebrity when he or she really has nothing new to say.
Plurk Just Fail Whaled on Me?!
Gassho says yes.
Plurk as Business Brainstorming Tool
A benefit of the Plurk platform is the threaded format. I don’t need to click through all the responses (a la Twitter) to get what everyone else is saying.
I’ve noticed that there have been great questions asked on Plurk, and these have generated responses very quickly. For example:
