Sean Reiser

I've just gotten back from a 2 week break from my normal hard core interweb access. I was away for a number of personal reasons, which I care not to get into today (it is however not a trip, I'm just using that as an example below). More of the issues with plurk vs. twitter differences are.

When I posted my first plurk, I noticed that I lost half my "score". Not a surprise, it had been 2 weeks without a plurk. Also, for some reason, you can only make plurks as "read" in 250 plurk bursts, so there's an intense cycle of Mark Read-> Reload -> Mark Read -> Reload -> Rinse -> Repeat which I've been doing off and on for the last hour. Not the most judicious use of my time. Plurk is my needy girlfriend. She's the one who punishes you when you return from a trip, no matter how important it was. She also won't really let you talk until you've heard everything that happened in her life, no matter how long you were gone. And she wants you to discuss it right away, no unpacking, no relaxing cup of tea.

When I first tweeted my return, I just hopped on twitter that I was back and huzzah! I was back. Folks returned my tweets and conversation was had. It was a grand old time, as they say. Basically twitter is my supportive girlfriend. She knows you're tired after the trip and makes it easy as possible. You catch up on your time, not hers. She knows the trip was important, she's glad your back. She's even made the cup of tea for you.

There are strengths to both platforms, don't get me wrong, and I suspect I'll be using both for a while but this just popped in my head so I figured I'd share.

Edit:
Someone pointed out I didn't pimp the twitter and plurk links:
http://twitter.com/nibbler
http://plurk.com/redeemByURL?from_uid=12936&check=1562603042&s=1