Plurk
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A Plurk timeline
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Type of site
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Social network service and Micro-blogging |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Owner | Plurk, Inc. |
| Created by | The A-team |
| Website | Plurk.com |
| Alexa rank |
 2284 (October 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | May 12, 2008 |
Plurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 360 text characters in length (as of December 28, 2016, immediately prior to which the limit was 210, which was increased from the original limit of 140).
Updates are then shown on the user's home page using a timeline, which lists all the updates received in chronological order, and delivered to other users who have chosen to receive them. Users can respond to other users' updates from their timeline through the Plurk.com website, by private or instant messaging, or by text messaging via compatible third party applications.
According to Alexa, as of October 3, 2016[update], 40.6% of Plurk's traffic comes from Taiwan. Plurk is also ranked the 85th in Taiwan and the 2,284th worldwide.
After months of development, Plurk was launched on May 12, 2008.
The etymology of the name was explained by the developers as such:
While it is difficult to track down the names of the creators of Plurk, and the "A-Team" link listed under "creator" leads to a page that lacks any real information, it is known that the current CEO is Danny Lin. In January 2013, it was announced that the company has been headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, while it has landed [an] undisclosed amount of funding."
Plurk's interface shows updates in horizontal form through a scrollable timeline written in JavaScript and updated through AJAX. Users can modify the interface using CSS and HTML scripts as well. Users can post new messages with optional 'qualifiers', which are one-word verbs used to represent a thought (e.g., 'feels', 'thinks', 'loves', etc.). There are also advanced features such as sending updates only to a subset of your friends, posting updates on events earlier in the day, and sharing images, videos, and other media. Followers are allowed, but only limited to accounts that are not set as private. Users can upload media files through YouTube, links and webcam or from their computer. Plurks can also be 'liked', as in other social sites. In addition, it has a birthday reminder feature that places a birthday cake sign on all the user's messages on his/her birthday. Every plurker has his/her own Karma value. It is recalculated based on your activities. Higher Karma can access to more emoticons.
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