Plurk has brought back the Instant Messenger (IM) feature!

You can now update your plurk page via your Instant Messenger service! Currently though, only IM accounts using the Google/Jabber platform are working (unlike what is displyed on the IM Page). Also, there may still be some issues with Google Apps-powered GTalk chat accounts.

Here are the steps to activating your Plurk via IM:
1. On your Plurk Page, click on MY Account (or visit this link: www.plurk.com/IM/showIM).

2. The window below will pop-up

3. Fill-in the IM field with your IM id (for Google Talk users, type in full email address).

4. On the SERVICE field, you will notice that only one drop-down option is available: Google/Jabber. Select that and hit Sign Up.

5. You will then get either an error message saying that the plurk bots are over-staffed and busy because of too many requests, or this message:

6. Add bot@plurk.com to your Contacts list on GTalk. Actually, You have to invite bot@plurk.com to Chat. Once you get bot@plurk.com added, you will receive this notice on your Plurk My Account Page:

7. And see this notice on your GTalk chat session with bot@plurk.com:

8. Type your Plurk user name to activate Plurk via Gtalk!
You will receive this message:

bot: Your IM is now activated! Type HELP to get short guide how to use me.

9. Congratulations! You may now start using Plurk via GTalk!

Need help with the commands? You can go to the IM Help Page or you can view my version of it below:

hello
Plurk Buddy will introduce itself to you and give you this message:

Hello there! My name is PlurkBuddy. I’m a notification bot of Plurk.com. Plurk is a social journal for your life. It’s nice to see you here again, bakla!

help
will give you this

* hello - I’ll introduce myself
* help - I’ll tell you about commands you can issue
* prefs - I’ll show your preferences
* off - Makes me silent
* on - I’ll speak again
* off plurks - I won’t send you notifications about new plurk
* on plurks - I will send you notifications about new plurk
* off responses - I won’t send you notifications about new responses
* on responses - I will send you notifications about new responses

prefs
These are the commands that you can use:

Silent: off
Notify when offline: off
Notify when busy: off
Notify about new plurks: on
Notify about responses: on
Auto plurk: off

So if youre tired of receiving updates, just type “off”. If you want it back on, simply type “on”

off
shuts Plurk Buddy up

on
turns Plurk Buddy on

off plurks
You will not receive updates from Plurk Buddy about new plurks

on plurks
opposite of above

off responses
You will not receive updates from Plurk buddy about new responses to plurks

on responses
opposite of above

If you do not want to follow updates of certain “friends” from your timeline on your IM, you can do that by clicking on My Friends. The window below will appear:

Just click on the button under the IM Follow and it changes automatically from On to Off or from Off to On (whichever is applicable).

(In case you didn’t notice, this is also where you can unfollow annoying people and remove them from your timeline instead of removing them as friends - removing them as friends will give you the later suffering from severe awkwardness when you want to follow them again).

Have fun with IM!

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