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During today’s PlurkCAST we were all honored to have Alvin, the lead graphic interface designer for Plurk, call in to the show and talk with us.

We’ve seen several instances where the A-Team has interacted on blog posts from Plurkular and Plurkiverse, but this was the first time anyone had called in and spoken with the PlurkCAST audience.

Alvin said that he and the rest of the A-Team were very happy with how supportive the entire Plurkommunity has been. Although he couldn’t share actual numbers, he did say that web traffic is healthy.

In the past month, much of the blogosphere has been up in arms about whether Plurk would topple Twitter as the microblogging king, but Alvin said the A-Team has a much different outlook on the situation.

“Plurk is not trying to be a microblogging killer. We feel that the web is big enough for everyone to coexist.”

Though we had an agenda for the show, much of it was thrown to the wind with Alvin joining. It allowed the crowd to have several questions answered. Below is some of the feedback we were able to gather.

PlurkCAST: What does the Plurk team think about third-party apps?

Alvin: We don’t know what to think about them.

PlurkCAST: Are the stats websites having an adverse affect on Plurk?

Alvin: We’re not sure how they are getting all of those statistics, but they’re not hurting us.

PlurkCAST: What is your reaction to the latest Mashable article about Plurk?

Alvin: ‘Ok’. I just read it and go on.

Alvin also mentioned that when the A-Team seemed to be having downer days, it seems that something from the Plurk community would always cheer them up, like badseedjen’s Plurk cake.

“Now you know why new Plurk features are so slow to be released. We’re all sitting around looking at Plurk pastries.”

Again, everyone was grateful to have Alvin on the PlurkCAST and we all hope to see other members calling in to future shows.

If you missed today’s PlurkCAST or usually just download them afterwards, maybe this will get you excited about attending live. You never know when someone from the A-Team might drop in.