"Plurk, a micro-messaging service similar to Twitter, today added a nice new feature: Real-time conversation search. As you might expect, it allows you to search Plurk’s growing index of data to find out what people are saying about a topic right now. In its post on the matter, Plurk goes into how it thinks this is the next phase of search beyond the traditional search engines, and how social search could revolutionize things. Of course, it fails to mention its number one competitor in the field: Twitter." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Finally. Now if they would junk karma and get an API out there, we'd be all set. - Criz

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

They still haven't. I've lost hope for this service :( - RK

Plurk hasn't done anything new for ages. :-( Good service but looking old and out of date a bit. - Kol Tregaskes

Missing a word there, Kol? - Andy Bakun

Corrected, Andy, ta. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I still don't think "real time search" makes any sense. By the time you know what to search for, it's not real-time anymore. Even trending-topics are bogus because of the hump of irrelevance ( http://www.flickr.com/photos... ) Give me saved-searches anytime. - Andy Bakun

And the Karma system. Dreadful. - RK

Filters would've been great too and a rePlurk button. I want to leave the service but most of my friends are there :( They really should've released an API back then. - RK

I use Plurk only to let my friends there know some interesting tidbits of my mind... never visited the site, though. Always used http://ping.fm to blast updates to Plurk. - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

OMG! Its alive XD - Francisco Espinoza from BuddyFeed

Amix just blocked me from his feeds for expressing dissenting opinion. :( - RK

I thought Plurk is about the conversation? Wouldn't Twitter be better suited for that kind of stuff? - RK

Twitter, better suited for conversation? I'm hope you're joking, kismet? ;-) Twitter is one of the worse for conversation. Even Plurk does a better job than Twitter. - Kol Tregaskes

I feel twitters days are numbered if they don't get bought out. They should have not been so greedy. Founders tend to over value their companies. Twitter need more capital or suffer a long and painful death. - Captain Jack

Plurk requires literally too much manual labor for me to use it. Always clicking. Fail in my book - cheapsuits from iPhone

Kol, twas a reply to Pandu's comment. He said he uses Plurk to broadcast his thoughts. Something which I think Twitter is better suited for. - RK