For awhile, plurk just didn’t work — That was mostly due to the Leo Laporte effect. He twittered about joining and shortly after everything quit working. Reminds me of when he first joined / broke Jaiku back in the day?

Shortly following became the twitter storm of people linking to their profiles increasing the steady flow of traffic Plurk was receiving that day. Check out their entry here with a graph of their spike in traffic.

So what exactly is “Plurk”?

The best way to describe it is the love child of twitter and dipity. If you’re familiar with those two sites then you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. If not, then let’s clarify: It’s a timeline based twitter that allows you to share media with your friends with incentive “karma” points for a slight competitive edge.

If you haven’t checked out plurk, you can do so here and we’ll automatically become friends.

Plurk is alright, but I will never be sold on the timeline interface. It takes forever to scroll and it’s not a very practical interface for viewing content quickly. This is why people love twitter so much — simplicity.

The one thing that I do really like about plurk is their replies feature. It appears in a nice little drop down menu and is automatically updated as new comments are added.

So, what do you think? I’d love to hear your thoughts on Plurk!