What with recent downtime on everyone’s* favourite micro-blogging site Twitter, we thought we’d bring you yet another site designed for keeping in touch with 140 character sized slices of life.

Readers meet Plurk, micro-blogging with a prefix and karma. The prefix can be any number of words from ‘says’, ‘wants’, ‘hates’, etc. So you could say, 1000heads ‘loves’ social media, for example. Karma is a little bit more complicated, and quite a nice touch at that. It is a score out of 100 calculated on a variety of activities and interactions that you undertake within the Plurk world. The better Plurker you are, the better your karma. It is arguably nothing more than a ploy to keep you coming back, though if it is, then it’s a good one.

Want to see your life on the line? The horizontal Plurking time line that is… Then head to Plurk and see what you think.

*Not necessarily accurate…