The community is still small but vibrant and enthusiastic, and growing. I think that they, like myself, are excited about being in at the start of something with potentially a great future. Plurkers appear to be a more mature, more sophisticated group. As yet, not a lot of kids appear to be plurkers. I have met a lot of really interesting, wonderful plurkers so far and had a blast!
The quirk of Plurk is the horizontal timeline.
Newest items appear at the left and by dragging or using the scroll wheel you can go back in time. It has a bit of a learning curve, but as I got more familiar with it, navigation became relatively simple.
I really like the conversational threads that develop from individual posts and appear in a drop-down window. Sometimes these convos go on for hours with various plurkers jumping in and out as they can.You can also preface your plurk with a choice of verbs and choose from an assortment of emoticons.
There's a system of karma points with certain plateaus that open new features. For example, when you reach 25 karma points, you're emoticon set increases.
You can group friends into cliques and send private plurks among the members of that group.
Pictures on other image hosting services such as Photobucket, Flickr, and Picasa Web can be linked to as can YouTube videos.
Plurk is not feature-rich. There is no search capability as yet. There isn't a way to ignore a conversation or save one, but it's early days yet.
I'm hooked, as are most of my pleeps. They are the best thing about Plurk ☺.
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