plurk

Plurk Before Twitter, Plurk was the hot micro-blogging social network website. It featured horizontal timelines, with ‘plurks’ (user updates) posting in chronological order, and users may interact with each other underneath the thread of each plurk. Plurk is still up and running, with its users mostly based in Taiwan, its presence in the Philippines has long faded away when Twitter rose up in the social media ranks. This week, our survey covers the micro-blogging service Plurk and Twitter. According to stats shown by Google Trends, the Philippines is ranked #3 visitor of Plurk.com worldwide. Then again, between Plurk and Twitter, Plurk seems to be the more preferred choice among Filipinos. It's yet unknown why this is so but if you look at the average profile of a Plurk user and a Twitter user, you will see the age range is much lower with Plurk. We're into Friendster more than Facebook, into Plurk more than Twitter, into LiveJournal and Multiply than WordPress and Blogger. Read more in our articles including "Social Media Sites of the Past" and "Poll: Plurk or Twitter?".