I can’t stand new social media tools. Actually, that’s not true. I just don’t like it when people jump on the bandwagon of something that winds up being just another empty social network and password I can never remember when I want to finally go and close down the account.

So just in time for everyone’s britches to get sideways and uncomfortable over Twitter’s foul-ups and failures, here comes the commando microblogging platform of the moment in Plurk.

And the lemmings ran right off the cliff.