Moving from Twitter to Plurk (and the like) »
The problems with Twitter are almost legendary. But a funny thing happened last week during their latest bout. As the popular Adobe AIR application Twhirl advised users to reduce requests to somewhere around a third of the normal rate so that users wouldn't experience errors on Twitter, another social application started to be mentioned. A lot.
Suddenly, users everywhere were talking about Plurk. Some people say that it came from Leo Laporte. Some say it was Scoble (evidence such as this tweet seem to indicate it was Leo). I think that I heard it first from Mack Collier, but I'll be honest - it could have been any number of people. Mack was likely just the most vocal that I heard (and he could have heard it from Leo, Scoble or any number of others himself. The fact is, Plurk started to emerge at just the right time, and now I'm convinced. It was just a day or so earlier that Plurk actually started to ramp things up.
