Would You Rather Plurck than Tweet?

Again, for those who are getting tired of Twitter’s downtime and are looking for a possible good alternative albeit a different interface, Plurck might appeal to you. Before we go in details about Plurck, let me just sound this “cool site alert!”. Yes dear readers, here comes another one of ‘em cool web 2.0 sites that may or may not make, but still worthy of your time.

Pluckr as it describes itself is:

a really snazzy site that allows you to showcase the events that make up your life, and follow the events of the people that matter to you, in deliciously digestible short messages called plurks.

This description can be construed as nothing but Twitter, right? Actually it does sound like what Twitter is already doing. But of course, you get a new platform with colorful design.

What sets it apart though from Twitter lies in one of its features, the qualifiers.

Qualifiers are yummy color coded words which are commonly used by our members to start plurks. They make it easy for you to identify different types of plurks visually. So you can easily tell what someone

Mobile access of Plurck is also on the way. Signing up is free as well. Are you ready to abandon tweetering and get into plurking?

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