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Hotels Bangkok — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:24:29 -0000

Twitter is an established website and even if new sites are better they simply can't replace the older more established website.

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cheap_textbooks — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:06:32 -0000

Nothing will ever beat twitter lol

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Siddiqua — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:56:27 -0000

Plurk has really come up with good innovative idea.. But I guess still it won’t overcome twitter.. May be the reason is that people have become addicted towards twitter and it would take a long time to make its position stable in the market.. But if they keep on bringing new innovations in their application, no doubt would soon cross twitter..

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shopfitting — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:20:47 -0000

Pownce looks like a fierce competitor to Twitter. It's about time Twitter had a run for the money.

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dennisbp — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:37:28 -0000

What did you like about plurk? I'm still not used to it

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grandonk — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:58:30 -0000

plurk is better as twitter alternatives
have used it for few weeks and i'm happy with the result

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The Seo Blog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:55:11 -0000

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thesimian — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:55:27 -0000

Rejaw.

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Dan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:29:20 -0000

I used Plurk for a week and then noticed people just getting pissed off with it and leaving. Twitter is a forgiving old bird.... taking you back after you've cheated on her.

I also was quite put off Plurk by the number of 13 and 14 year olds on it.

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Harry — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:04:02 -0000

@Dennis - yup, when it's working, both tweeting and receiving followed tweets occur via IM (assuming you set that device on).

I've been playing with ping.fm and it allows me to post to both twitter and plurk via IM (to ping.fm's bot) and that get's me halfway there, but not being able to receive is a bummer - I feel like I'm talking to myself.

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Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:38:22 -0000

@Harry: I've never really used IM to post on twitter. Do you get your replies in your IM-client too?

@Mrs. Micah: Welcome to TBN. Good to have you here! Twhirl is definitely my favourite desktop app too. Now if only twitter would remain stable it would be even better ;)

@Dan: Plurk's biggest drawback at the moment is the lack of an API. I want plurk in twhirl.
So for now you need another tab in FF :-/

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Dan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:26:43 -0000

Nice comparison. You know I think you hit the nail on the head when you said Pownce is too feature heavy and complicated for just quick 10 second microblogging.

Plurk sounds really good and I think I'm gonna give it a go. The one click reply thing is nothing new to Twitter users who use Twhirl/Snitter/Twitteriffic etc but this Karma thing actually sounds pretty cool. Are there any clients for Plurk? I don't want to have to open a new FF tab to post updates...

Dan

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Mrs. Micah — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:15:48 -0000

I might well use these. There are so many people on Twitter and the twhirl desktop app works really well for me (unless Twitter is crashing) so I don't want to switch. I find it a useful networking tool and a way of feeling connected when I'm working from home. But it's not critical to my work so I can do without it.

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Harry — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:52:16 -0000

I like plurk so far, though it's having it's share of stability problems. The thing that makes pownce a non-contender for me is the lack of IM integration. Others may feel that SMS is more important, but IM is far and away my preferred method of interfacing with these kind of services, to both post entries and get notified of other's.

Of course, both twitter and plurk's IM bots are down at the moment, so....