Twitter is Dead … Long Live Plurk (Or some other stupid named micro blogging platform)

25 Jun, 2008 Opinion

I loved Twitter for its simplicity, its ease of use to communicate, its way of bringing instant friend referrals straight to my desktop (I did use Twitter Fox) then it got bloated and some executive or two never made the call not to keep-up with the data outage. Then Twitter died … almost daily, and my usage of the service curled up and withered with it.

However, before I could suck my last Twitteresque breath, some micro-blogging-evangelist leant before myself and began to chant – plurk, Plurk, PlurK, PLURK … – then my world greyed and became finally focussed on a headless something, I think it’s a pig but that debate is still open for argument.

So, what the hell does Plurk have to offer to an SEO … honestly, dunno, ask me when I’m sober, in fact score that don’t ask me at all. Because this is micro-blogging, its the time to get comfortable with each other, gain friends, listen and learn, show-off when called to do so, talk when no-one is listening, be yourself … which I find most encouraging of all social media sites.

There is no gain in gaming sites like Plurk or Twitter not in the long run anyway its about belonging, becoming and most of all being there. That’s it, just being in amongst a crowd,not really adding to or taking away from but your there sharing a laugh, a thought, a moment … just being sums up micro-blogging for me in a nutshell.

There are guys out there, like James who pick-apart expertly these social platforms, draw rock-solid conclusions and like to analyse these platforms for what they are really worth in terms of engagement. Me, I’m not engaged enough to make those calls but rather see it like a call-back to when I used to hang, nothing important was said much, nothing was ever really decided, but man we had fun just being together.

And that’s it, that’s Plurk, that’s its message or it should be … just here right now having a laugh, enjoying what you say but not really too interested, just me being me, just you being you, just plurking along and killing another few seconds of my time on this planet.

By the way you can follow me on Plurk at the following : http://www.plurk.com/user/northsouthmedia for all the good it will do you