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I’ll keep updating this as I find new things!<\/b><\/p>\n

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Peat<\/a> has already mentioned his newfound love of Plurk<\/a>, a quirky new social networking site that I’ve been playing with. Now that Leo Laporte<\/a> has endorsed it, they’ve experienced their first Twitter-style growth<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What I like most about Plurk is that it takes the great feeling of chatter you get in a lively IRC channel, and combines it with awesome threading – something that Twitter users have complained about for a long time. Hash-tagging has solved some of the problem, but I have to say that I enjoy a return to real threading. <\/p>\n

So far, using plurk is immersive, silly and very fun. The service is still young (periodic 500 errors!), and there are a couple UI issues (too much clicking!). But, using it last night was fast and easy. There’s a definite difference between Plurk and Twitter in terms of attention-demand. I liked @brampitoyo’s plurk about it being “high-maintenance.<\/a>” I totally agree, but it encourages for short bursts of creative conversation. There’s an intense, good intimacy created with the threads that I don’t see as often with Twitter.<\/p>\n

In the first 24-hours, here are a few tips I’ve gleaned for getting the most out of plurk: <\/p>\n