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When Plurk came out, I found it as a fun, innovative way of keeping in touch with friends – so, I just had to try it out. But it was impossible really hard to make sure the functioning of my Twitter account as well as the Plurk.
But first, why would a blogger like me a trying to make money should be concerned about keeping both of these functional? Because it’s killer traffic! You post something and announce it onto your followers on Twitter or Plurk! The interested ones will check it out – which will significantly bring you a lot of exposure provided that you have a targeted set of followers, great in numbers too…
If you’re interested about finding ways to build traffic to your blog with these services, check my earlier article – 2 Aggressive Social Media secrets that can really bring you traffic!
I agree that Plurk and Twitter have their differences. But, their primary concept is the same., right? And by the way, I wasn’t even thinking of letting my Twitter account go like most of the others did. So, my only option was to make sure that both of them go parallel. I don’t lead a double life:), so I had to find a way to make sure Twitter and Plurk both are synchronized simultaneously according to my status. And that’s when I found Ping.fm! Simply said,
Use AIM, GTalk, iGoogle, WAP, iPhone/iPod Touch, SMS or E-mail and let Ping.fm relay your message to a multitude of social networking sites.
So, what I do now is that I keep Ping.fm on my IM client and update it as necessary so that my Plurk, Twitter and Facebook accounts get updated. But, Ping.fm supports many social networking sites other than those 3.
But it’s only fair that I make you aware of the drawbacks of using this service. First, these services are about collaborating with people. Especially when you update Twitter or Plurk, you are bound to get some replies – but if you just keep it to Ping.fm, you will never see the replies. It’s totally cool if you want to post to all of them at the same time, but check back from time to time (depends on the number of your followers) to respond to the people who replied.
Hey! It’s social media mate:) Spammers die quick!
If you want to automate the posting from your blog when a new blog post is added, I recommend using PingPress.fm plugin for Wordpress. Hope you will find this new service useful.
I haven’t started using Plurk yet but this seems like a great way to update both at once
I had looked at ping.fm in the past but hadn’t signed up. Thanks to your post they have a new member. I quickly set up several of my social sites and testing out some pings and I was pleased to see how well it worked.
I have several wordpress blogs (own domain) and once I update WP I’ll add that pingpress.fm plugin so that I can send out a message whenever I add a new post (I’m currently using twitterfox to broadcast messages about new posts to Twitter).
Thanks!
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just started using plurke after seeing a post at problogger but do not have time to update often. This is a great way to over come that problem. Thanks….
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Useful! Thanks!