Over the last couple of days the “next big thing” has been Plurk. However, many have been comparing Plurk to Twitter, and calling Plurk “the next Twitter”. I’m here to prove them wrong — Plurk is not like Twitter.

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It’s not that I don’t like these things; I think it’s more what all these webapps are suffering from, and that’s “done it before.” Even being able to mention three off the top of your head is a major problem, and that’s even leaving out Pownce.

I hear so many great things about these sites, and I put them on my “I’ll try it” list, try it, and then don’t really see anything particularly impressive. Maybe it’s just because I’m not a huge fan of “microblogging” (in case you haven’t noticed, I like to talk… a lot.).

But most likely it’s because I hear so many things about how great X is and how it’s better than Y and Z, but I don’t really want to take my foo over to yet another bar, if you know what I mean. It’s happened with digg, del.icio.us, stumbleupon… I’m trying really hard to return to these things, but I just don’t have the patience.

I’m also not the biggest fan of this whole “Web 2.0″ buzzword thing we’ve got going on. It’s not that I’m not enjoying the buzz just as much as everybody else. It’s just that it requires a lot of effort to keep up with, and I’m lazy beyond reason.

Maybe I’m just getting too old for this stuff, when I’m just now nearing the edge of 18? Is it possible to be jaded with the internet?

I do like that Twitter and Mixx are working together.

@Arian Xhezairi: We all experience them lately, but regardless of them Twitter is still growing, and I’m thinking it’s because of two main reasons:
1. Authority bloggers promote through their posts ways to transform Twitter into a marketing tool (like Darren Rowse did lately).
2. Smaller blogs write about it more because of trying to keep up with the hype, but only a few times express original ideas or opinion. Most times it’s just a rewrite or an article of the “I agree with X” type. This also generates buzz for Twitter, because in the end, bad publicity is still publicity.

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It’s pretty difficult to over take the heavy hitter on the block. The heavy hitter has to either really mess up (really mess up!) or the replacement has to be of a higher caliber. If those two considerations do not happen, it’s unlikely anything will top twitter.

Look at the myspace vs. facebook war. Most believe facebook will overtake myspace in time. Well, in my opinion, this makes good sense as facebook is a much higher quality platform.