Differences between Twitter and Plurk...

After using Twitter and Plurk, I have determined that both microblogging tools basically offer the same thing: you can create a personal account and quick message back and forth with friends. Twitter is used to stay in touch with both "friends" and public users. You can stay up-to-date with who is working on what at that specific moment, and it also allows real-time conversation between people. Plurk offers the same objective, except it always seemed like there was much more chatter going on while using it. There is also a "timeline" on Plurk - it scrolls left to right, with the most recent data at the left. The messages are arranged in chronological order, and because sometimes people send messages at the same time, this view also let's you easily read a large number of messages at the same time. Personally, I felt Plurk was much easier to navigate through; at times Twitter was overwhelming to me. The design of the Plurk site allows the user to sort through which messages they wanted to read, which was also appealing to me. I would have to award Plurk the prize in the category of Twitter vs. Plurk.