Comments on: Why Plurk Will Fail

By: Zoujiaofang

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By: Phil Wheat : Architecting for Internet Scale and Usability

Phil Wheat : Architecting for Internet Scale and Usability — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:23:52 +0000

[...] I may have to listen to whurley and just moved over to Plurk (or whatever comes after – Michelle is already a bit annoyed with the latest in Social networking and I’m not that far behind.) [...]

By: WinExtra » From the Pipeline – 6.12.08

WinExtra » From the Pipeline – 6.12.08 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:11:09 +0000

[...] Why Plurk Will Fail :: Michelle’s Blog – I don’t like Plurk at all and even though all of the early adopters seem to have climbed on the bandwagon I’m still standing at the station hoping something better is coming down the line. [...]

By: otherdeb (Deb Wunder)

otherdeb (Deb Wunder) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:34:51 +0000

I suspect that it won’t be the karma thing that give Plurk it’s biggest problem, but that it will fall more to the twin issues of signal to noise ration, and people discovering that playing there has begun to impede actual productivity.

By: Kelsey Ruger

Kelsey Ruger — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:30:45 +0000

The noise level on Plurk is really high. I think the problem is that people aren’t letting the Karma system work the way it naturally would. Without knowing the actual strategy involved here is what I think the creators of Plurk thought – People will interact with their close or extended circle of friends, sharing common thoughts and ideas. People’s karma will go up natually as they participate in conversations.

What really happened is they tapped into people internal need (whether they acknowledge it or not) to be popular. People do odd things to be popular.

By: Jenntex

Jenntex — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:22:45 +0000

This Karma think is precisely why I will probably not recommend that the organization that I work for not employ Plurk in our social media plan. It has some nice bells and whistles but there are a few things that make it a bit too “silly” and not respectable enough to use in our business.

But I will probably keep using it for fun until i get tired of loosing Karma

By: Julie Gomoll

Julie Gomoll — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:19:59 +0000

I enjoyed Plurk for a few days. At first I even thought it might be a Twitter killer. Not for long, though.

The ability to have threaded conversations seemed like a great idea, but the noise level got really high. I’d check in and there would be hundreds of unread replies, many of them in response to plurks like “please comment on this.” In real time, the threads felt more like chat, which is fine, but it’s a completely different experience than Twitter.

And the karma is a brilliant system to hook the obsessive users. I just don’t have time to go there.

Twitter is fun, but more importantly, it’s become a valuable tool. I’ve stopped following the collectors (I have 998 followers! Please follow me so I can have 1000!) and the consistently inane (we’re all inane from time to time . I’m left with people who make me think, make me laugh, point me to interesting things, and jump in to help when I have a question. I can’t imagine Plurk getting there.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:01:04 +0000

@ggroovin Agreed. Without an API and access to something like TWhirl, I cannot justify keeping up with this social network. Gotta have a life!

Matt, ya perhaps something that allows users to secretly rate others or something. I have no clue on that one. I just know that the frequent Plurkers are not always the most merit worthy.

Frankly, I think too many people abuse Twitter with utterly boring conversation too. My fear is that I’d tweet that I’m being strangled, and it would get lost in Scoble’s tweets about eating an ice cream cone with the Gillmor Gang.

By: Shawn Powers

Shawn Powers — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:00:06 +0000

I think the karma deal is more of an annoyance than anything. I get to see other people’s banana bombs, so I’m good.

The lack of API is a killer though. Give me a Plhurl client, and I might be able to keep up better. The web interface is huge, and tough to use in the background. (I’ll give you a dollar if you can use the standard Plurk interface on my EeePC)

If it does survive, it will be because like you say, you can stop seeing “friends” stuff. Nice feature. Funny that we need it.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:28:51 +0000

It’s sad that the conversations that could be happening over there aren’t yet. There are more concerned with getting karma than finding some cool discussions to get involved in. I think the rumored new karma system may make some of the folks who just want to “get it all” realize the system’s intent. Hopefully they’ll reward us on depth and not quantity.

You can always hope…