Plurk Adds Twitter Friend Import Tool

Posted on June 9, 2008

Twitter's woes have continued this week. Plurk is a unique microblogging alternative. To attract more Twitter users Plurk has added a Twitter import tool that tells you which of your Twitter friends have set up an account on Plurk.

There has been some confusion as the import tool adds Twitter friends as fans in Plurk instead of sending out a friend request. Maybe Plurk was trying to avoid the problem of spammers moving from Twitter to Plurk and adding thousands of friends instantly. Some people are also using different names in Plurk so one might inadvertently add someone who is not your old Twitter friend by mistake. Others have said the service limits the number of friends they can locate. It isn't perfect but it does at least provide a way of locating which of your friends have set up account inside Plurk. You can see an interesting thread about it here in Plurk. If you plan on joining Plurk you should consider using your Twitter name since people will probably be looking for it in Plurk.