WAAAY better than Twitter! AND you can tweet your plurks!

It's also easier to respond to others, and for them to respond to you

You can still post links, etc., but they don't get as buried as quickly as at Twitter

I would add that it is fundamentally *different* from twitter. You may want to keep both.

Twitter is great for news, announcements, and 1-way information. Plurk is more community building - creating conversations.

I totally agree with Tzard

Tzard, that info is very helpful. Thank you.

...and you can set up your plurk account to update twitter and facebook for you, or use something like ping.fm as noted above

and, if you start getting too many to keep up with, you can "unfollow" someone without removing them as a friend ...

Lavona, won't doing that hurt the other person's "karma"?

no, one gets penalized if they are unfriended, but not unfollowed

Karma goes up only if people post to YOUR messages ... and only by a maximum amount each 12 hours

it drops when you go 12 hours without posting ... almost always more than one can get in 12 hours

the max amt you can go up in 12 hrs gets smaller as you get closer to 100

the amount it drops for not posting get larger as you get closer to 100

Thanks, Lavona. This is interesting.