But if you did, then I - and others - could read your posts as you post them. They are interesting and fun and I would like to do that.

Otherwise, I’ll just subscribe in my feedreader and forget who you are and probably never look at your blog again.

Cheers !
You can check out the tool at plurkerati.com

Some microblogs worldwide

This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time.

general
twitter.com
jaiku.com
pownce.com
beemood.com
twoorl.com
yonkly.com
kwippy.com
microblogr.com
brightkite.com
plurk.com
secondbrain.com

Chinese
fanfou.com
zuosa.com
komoo.cn

Portuguese
gozub.com

Brazilian
telog.com.br

Indian
snockles.com

Singaporean
tiish.com

Italian
meemi.com

Spanish
khaces.com

Turkish
nolyo.com

French
noumba.net
poodz.com
tapioka.ca

Korean
playtalk.net

Japanese
feecle.jp

German
niimo.com

Polish
blip.pl

Dutch
numpa.nl

Portuguese
gozub.com

Russian
smspr.ru

Arabic
watwet.com

Romanian
cirip.ro

Mexican
mexicodiario.com

Czech
http://drbz.cz

special
tumblr.com
hictu.com
babl.nl
floort.com
help.com
justtell.us
talkaboutadate.com
adocu.com

multiple posting

hellotxt.com

The most exhaustive list I know about is the list made up by thw http://www.thws.cn/articles/twitter-clones.html

@ Steven - Your statement sums up my sentiment perfectly - ‘Much of the success is based on what they’ve done outside of Twitter’. I doubt there’s many that have found success via micro blogging alone. But it is a great supporting mechanism.

@ Darren - Thanks for stopping by. And next time make sure you listen to my tips Bet you didn’t tip the Bombers last week either… I did and it’s oh so sweet when it’s over Carlton!

@ Mojaam - Glad to see I’m not the only Anti-Twitter one out there. As for the people to befriend… it’s easy for me because I have lots of industry bloggers I like to follow. But I don’t have any real life friends on Plurk. They just wouldn’t be into it. As for time wasting, it just depends on how much free time you have and how you want to spend it. For me, I don’t have a lot, so excessive Plurk usage tends to waster time I could spend working on my blog.

I also don’t care about the Karma system. I try to plurk for myself really, I am still not sure who to invite. In part because I don’t have many so called “friends” and I’m not sure how I’ll feel about people I see and know personally stalking me. So when I plurk, it has to be slightly interesting for me at least.

I feel it is also time wasting but doesn’t that depend on how bored/boring you are. I know I had activities like reading blogs, digg, youtube, etc all on the back burner back when I had classes granted I procrastinate with all those things but on my own will. I do wish the plurks of people could be more interesting for those time wasting sessions where I browse the site. I really wished there’s a search feature with RSS capabilities. Something like tweetscan. Also wish a person doesn’t have to be friends with someone to send a private plurk to or at least leave that up to the user.

Like you said the positives do outweigh those negatives. Especially extending relationships. Now I can see real benefits of adding your friends, heck, the thing is almost useless without them.

I do wish plurk will communicate with it’s users better. There’s a comment-disabled blog and a contact form that you never get feedback from. Come to think of it, that’s how facebook operates even though facebook’s learning and now involving the users from the beginning (ie the upcoming profile changes have a facebook page with weekly updates). The creator of Plurk, Amix, did create todoist.com which uses http://todoist.uservoice.com which I just love, so maybe we’ll see a http://plurk.uservoice.com some day.