Plurk . is a microblogging service that is an interesting alternative to Twitter and a large number of other services of this type.
Summary
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- 1 History
- 1 Plurk features
- 2 Plurk Features
- 3 Advantages of Plurk
- 4 Sources
- 5 External Links
History
Plurk
It emerged around 2008 as a new idea different from the rest of the conventional social networks .
Its founders describe it as a place where “to show bits of life and to publish the chronicles of the events that arise”. The format in which it is presented consists of a home page that reflects the published content according to different thematic categories . The user can modify their profile and win so-called “passes” to access other features that make the service even more attractive.
Etymologically the name is explained by the developers as:
Abbreviation of people ( people ) and lurk (to be on the lookout )
Contraction of play ( play ) and work ( work )
Acronym of peace, love, unity, respect, and karma ( peace , love , unity , respect and karma )
In the specific case of the site, the functionality and characteristics of the tool considerably differentiate this social network from others, even though the content organization is somewhat similar to that of Twitter.
Plurk functionalities
- Share pictures, links or videos: So far you could select the action “shares” and add a link, either a video from YouTube or an image.
- Renewed the section of my friends: From this option in your friends tab we can now see a list of people we are mutual friends, people we only follow and our fans.
- Interesting plurkers: It is improved to make it possible to meet the plurkers according to our criteria, either by genre, age, spoken languages or locations.
The most important news for the user, although there are also other news:
- Plurk Labs: Online laboratory where users will test the news that the development team plan to incorporate later.
- Plurk Wiki : This is a new place where we can document and find information regarding everything related to Plurk.
Plurk Features
- Share status with messages of 140 characters maximum, these messages can be of all kinds such as moods, news, data that in a few words can be shared with general users of this service or only with our followers.
- It offers in its standard interface much more than Twitter .
- The main functionality that plurk offers is that each conversation has its own thread.
- Each talk that is proposed is answered right there by everyone so they do not intersect.
- The timeline layout is horizontal instead of vertical
- Allows sharing not only URLs but also multimedia content ( photos , videos )
Plurk advantages
- Responses to messages under the message itself, making everything easier to follow.
- Each conversation has its own page.
- Mute: possibility of making a “mute”, which will not notify us of more messages that occur in that conversation. For when the subject does not interest us.
- Cliques, which are groups of friends, through which we can send a message to a specific group (people from the office, or from the basketball team)
- Searches integrated into the service itself
- Stars and Karma. The more you plurk, the more karma you have. If you send spam , your karma goes down. It’s like a measure of reputation, of who you are on Plurk.
- Possibility to edit plurks once sent. It is no longer necessary to be ashamed of having sent things that we should not have sent.
- Friends and fans : People can qualify you as friends (those who read and read you) or fans (those who do not read but read you)
- Auto update : new messages are clearly marked, in a different color.
- Possibility of including videos and photos in the same Plurk, without external applications .
- You can put a widget , with your plurks on your blog .
