Michael Schneider has written a post on his Digital Before Digital blog about the launch of Plurk: the new “Twitter-like” service recently launched. In it, Schneider writes:

Plurk has had the benefit of watching twitter flop around like a fish on the beach, but twitter has a big head start. Plurk’s user interface is a lot different. Twitter’s advantage is that most of its users are already longtime instant messenger users and bloggers who understand the technology and have easily adopted and embraced its value proposition. Because Plurk takes a few times to get used to, it puts it at a huge disadvantage in a space where people will give you about 90 seconds before they decide if they want to pursue something– unless they get some of the Twitter elite to convert people.

Certainly Plurk has gained some good press as a service that does things a little better than Twitter (stability issues not withstanding). But how much room do people have for another social network service? And will adoption from key Twitterers be the key to Plurk’s success? What do you think?

You can read Michael’s full post here.