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Posts Tagged ‘Micro-blogging’

Twitter has really exploded this year into the mainstream. Now just about every celebrity has their own profiles and most have some one their staff to update it for them. New applications for Twitter are born every day.

If you are like me and have a few followers you are probably noticing that your inbox is starting to fill up with spam messages?

Twitter is the new email and I predict that it won’t be long until we see applications to filter Twitter spam and spammers. And just as with emails, spammers and people who want to reach a large number of people with shady messages are working hard on finding new ways to beat the system.

So why not stay one step ahead and check out a less known but good working alternatives to Twitter.

Plurk is a micro blogging service where you, just as with Twitter, can write 140 character messages. In the 140 character you don’t have to include the context of your message but you select the context from a dropdown menu. A context can be for example be “sitehype is” or “sitehype likes” for my sitehype Plurk user. Your Plurks are displayed on a time-line in chronological order.

Plurk has a Karma concept that is basically a point system design to award activity on Plurk. When you update your status your karma will increase as well as if you do other things with the service. If you do nothing with the service your karma will decrease.

One more interesting feature is Plurks integration with Twitter, Facebook and some other social bookmarking sites. You can for example update your Twitter and Facebook status automatically when you update your Plurk status.

To get you started quickly with Plurk you can import your Twitter friends (set your accounts on the “plurk on other networks” page accessible from “My account” ).

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