My response to: Conversational Marketing's Fan Boy Post About Plurk
I have both twitter, plurk, and multiple other profiles on social networks and micro-blogs. In my opinion it comes down to a couple of things:
Frankly for me it comes down to this: I like twitter, my friends are on both (but we all PREFER twitter), everything you complain about twitter for is being fixed/updated/or has fan apis that make Twitter far superior to Plurk. Now if we look at this from a completely different standpoint both are a minority compared to some international micro-blogs with a much larger user-base. Twitter is occasionally slow yes, but that should be done in a few months. As for Plurk being easier to follow--that again is a matter of opinion and not fact. I applaud Plurk for some originality and for appealing to teens with their kharma game aspect, or adults who like to be told they are popular, and while it is fun to see what else they will give you for higher levels I don't think it is a determining factor on functionality and why to choose that over another service.
Not to break down this post, it had a few good points on why you enjoy their services. Just playing devil's advocate and placing the other side of the story out there. If anyone does want more information on all of the possible services and fan apis for twitter I have written multiple posts on my blog, otherwise twitter has their own blog that overlays the newest services.
I have both twitter, plurk, and multiple other profiles on social networks and micro-blogs. In my opinion it comes down to a couple of things:
- What is convenient
- Where your friends are
- Where the people you trust/like/associate with/ or other business professional enjoy the most
- How you can get your message across the best and just which you are loyal to.
Frankly for me it comes down to this: I like twitter, my friends are on both (but we all PREFER twitter), everything you complain about twitter for is being fixed/updated/or has fan apis that make Twitter far superior to Plurk. Now if we look at this from a completely different standpoint both are a minority compared to some international micro-blogs with a much larger user-base. Twitter is occasionally slow yes, but that should be done in a few months. As for Plurk being easier to follow--that again is a matter of opinion and not fact. I applaud Plurk for some originality and for appealing to teens with their kharma game aspect, or adults who like to be told they are popular, and while it is fun to see what else they will give you for higher levels I don't think it is a determining factor on functionality and why to choose that over another service.
Not to break down this post, it had a few good points on why you enjoy their services. Just playing devil's advocate and placing the other side of the story out there. If anyone does want more information on all of the possible services and fan apis for twitter I have written multiple posts on my blog, otherwise twitter has their own blog that overlays the newest services.
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