Viva la Revolución!
Guest Blog Post by @pprlisa
First you must know, we use an asterisk in the name so they can’t track it through Summize.
When Pl*rk first came out I feared that everyone would run to the new shiny thing and leave Twitter in the dust. I had already built up a pretty sizable following on Twitter and I was none too pleased about the concept of starting over again on a new platform. I began to beg my followers to not defect over to pl*rk and started inferring all kinds of evil things about pl*rk. Luckily I had already set up an account on pl*rk and realized, I really didn’t like it.
Soon it was a playful back and forth with many of my followers. Then my friend @lizwebpage jumped on board and together we started to incite an anti-pl*rk riot on Twitter. In protest, @ikepigott pasted a beret on his avatar and I thought, I should get one too. I asked him to make me one and so he did! The Anti-Pl*rk Revolución was born!
@lizwebpage knitted herself a beret and then set up shop for the entire anti-pl*rk brigade. We started putting on our beret avatars every Friday through the Tweekend for the résistance movement. More and more people started asking for them. I think there could be over 50 of them now. Some people made their own like @FabGirl and @StarryDynamo who have different colored ones but there are many other red beret loyals: @donthorp, @justTamar, @PopDaddy, @WendyM, @marz8, @akamonty, @cmajor, @dougmeacham, @eeUS, @juliagoolia, @prp2, @sendchocolate, @thronkus, and soooooo many moreeeeee!
It has become a pretty hilarious Friday night ritual—right after 5:00 PM—one by one the berets start popping up and it is a hilarious sight! So, we were just going along playing this silly game, when all of a sudden @bloggersblog called us out and showed us that they were talking about us over on pl*rk—so there were now two threads going on about us and the revolution!
So, Liz and I jumped in with our Berets on and pl*rked in their stream: http://www.plurk.com/p/m73c. It’s really a hilarious read. They started out as being pretty mad but then they understood that we were just playing around. Just because their social media site is inferior, doesn’t mean we hate them! 
—@pprlisa
Tags: @pprlisa, Follower, Following, Plurk, red beret, Twitter
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
@pprlisa…you and la Revolution rock!
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July 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
VIVA LA REVOLUCION! Way to go Lisa! Great article. Thanks too for adding to my celebrity status today, I think that you and I are going to need to go shopping for some sunglasses so that we can keep a low profile from the paparazzi!
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July 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
It is interesting what has become of an initial fundamental concept of “I want to keep my friends on twitter”. I think that’s the piece that most people don’t understand. It’s a playful “I just want to stay here on twitter” when so many people have made it seem hateful.
We all have our favorite toothpaste, type of food, ect..
I *heart* many Pl*rkers, that doesn’t mean I’m going to join another social media site, I just wait for them to come visit Twitter.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I stll think we need to target the twitter bot invasion next with the revolucion!
~Laura Iriarte/aka @lauralovesart
http://lauralovesart.wordpress.com
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July 22nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I think the berets are tres cool and would be sporting one myself if I had any Photoshop skillz whatsoever. I am on Pl*rk and was there often when Twitter was going through some growing pains last month, but I’m a Twitter girl at heart. It popped my microblogging cherry, if you will, and you know how hard it is for a girl to let go of her “first”…
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July 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Ok, this is all kinds of funny. You know we will be branded as troublemakers, right?
T.
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July 22nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Very well said, Lisa! Some great choices of phrase in that article, too, “Liz and I jumped in with our Berets on and pl*rked in their stream.” Hahaha, nicely done! Tweet ya on the flipside…
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I like being a trouble maker!! Bring it on Pl*rk!
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Plurk is not my fave site (as evidenced by my less than stellar review on Profy a while back), though I can see how some people like it. I update there using Ping.fm, same as I do Pownce and other places I feel a need to show my face on but don’t want to embrace fully like I have Twitter.
Leslie
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July 23rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Love it! Fun times on twitter…
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August 1st, 2008 at 8:55 am
callkathy *loves* LA REVOLUCION!
Seriously - I love both tools. I enjoy the people I know on both communities. When one is down, I miss it. When I am swamped, I find it hard to keep up on either. Weeks like this where I am traveling, I bob in to whichever I get to first - update and go on.
I do belive that they are useful for different things. BUT I won’t give up either until they pull my mouse from my cold dead hands!
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August 1st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I also use both sites for very different reasons. Plurk is naturally more social while Twitter is a great communication tool.
However, I just want to point out that one of your earlier commenters seems like a complete hypocrite to me.
One of Twitter’s main flaws is what Plurk provides - the ability to comment on someone’s “plurk” in a much easier-to-follow format than how we “@” reply to a tweet.
This particular person jumped into a discussion that I was having with someone else that had ~nothing~ to do with her, proceeded to call me ignorant (Hello, pot? This is the Kettle…) and then announced that she was unfollowing me (which I am grateful for! not sure why she followed me in the first place) but then, after all her craziness, to which I never bothered replying to) she @replies one more time to say, “Plurk is a lovely platform, have you tried it?”
What the heck does that mean? Is she banishing me from Twitter? Is Plurk the JV to her Varsity team?
For someone who comes across as being all “hearts and flowers” here, I sure experienced something completely different and quite creepy… not to mention a little immature.
Either way, I’m a happy resident of both the “Twitterverse” and “Plurkistan” … and am rather happy to not have the misunderstandings that arise out of uninformed people entering in on half a conversation.
That’s all I wanted to say. Thanks. =)
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