I was initially a little hesitant to write about a post about Plurk. I prefer to review only the best and most useful services, not simply whatever new startup appears on TechCrunch a while ago.
However I’ve only been using Plurk for a couple of days and I’m completely converted, in fact over the last week or so (in between bitching about Twitter) a number of people have started moving over, Darren Rowse (Problogger.net) being a notable example.
Plurk is a shiny new startup which although about 3 months old, just gained exposure through a featuring on TechCrunch and from there a number of other large tech blogs. In fact take a look at the not-so-exponential growth of users via the Plurk blog.
Many of these early adopters are simply checking the service out from curiosity and using it as some kind of threat (“Any more Twitter downtime and I’m leaving!”). However I have confidence Plurk is a lot more then just a hype, and I wanted to share what it is that I think makes this service stand out.
