Remember the news about a social networking site in China that’s a Facebook ripoff (previously known as xiaonei.com, now renren.com)? Well, I am not expecting Microsoft China to rip-off Plurk, but they just did. Plurk is amongst the popular microblogging services used by Filipinos.

This graph shows that Twitter.com is still the most widely used microblogging tool in the Philippines (that is as of July 2008 data from Google Trends). However, Plurk.com’s traffic is fast catching up.