Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 140 text characters in length.
Users can respond to other users' updates from their timeline through the Plurk.com website, by instant messaging, or by text messaging.Plurk was developed by and envisioned as a communication medium meant to form a balance between blogs and social networks, and between e-mail messaging and instant messaging.
Plurk's interface shows updates in horizontal form through a scrollable timeline written in AJAX. Users can post new messages with optional 'qualifiers', which are one-word verbs used to represent a thoughts. There are also advanced features such as sending updates only to a subset of your friends, posting updates on events earlier in the day, and sharing images, videos, and other media.Plurk also supports group conversations between friends and allows usage of emoticons together with the usual text micro-bloggingPlurk has often been considered to be a rival to Twitter, an earlier micro-blogging service.Here are some few tips:

Only add real friends to your friends list and limit your friends list to your closest buddies.

Try not to plurk more than 30 times a day - your friends may consider it annoying.

Don't share personal information in your plurks - definitely don't share social security numbers, credit card numbers, etc.

Respond to existing plurks, create new plurks when necessary.

Learn to use the plurk privacy options and be careful about what you say about others.


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