Plurk is constantly improving. Its only been around a year whereas twitter has been around for almost 3 years now. I think that in a year or 2 plurk will be even bigger and better.

Also one of the only reasons twitter is so popular is because of the celebrities on it. Thats why alot of people actually sign up, whereas on plurk they sign up to meet new people and stay in contact with friends.

Plurk is great if you want to hold a conversation about any of the above.

The downside to Twitter is it’s hard to really have conversations, get to know people. Sure it’s do-able and has been done, I’m sure. But Plurk make it really easy to converse and the average person is more likely to want to converse than just shout into the middle of nowhere about how great they are.

If you actually go on Plurk and use it as a social network, to be social, you’ll find it’s more friendly, and an all round great social network which is growing.

Twitter’s main draw is the fact they’ve implemented SMS, but I find that following conversations and topics is a bit of a chore. Everything gets all jumbled up in the feed…

Plurk brings responses together in one place, but they don’t have SMS yet. And, it DOES look more complex than Twitter at first glance, so I think a lot of users are turned off before they really get into it…

I hope Plurk sticks around. They have a good thing going.

I’ll pass.

This is the key point, twitter has millions of users so their search is much more useful. “Real-time conversation search” is nothing new, forums have had search functions for years.