Very late to the party

Of late I’ve been missing lots of comms from all over.

Eighteen months ago I signed up to Twitter to see what all the fuss was about – I very quickly decided I hated it. ‘I am doing this’, ‘I have just done that’ – why do I need to know this? Another form of communication that I had to keep tabs on. I already have IM, email and a mobile phone why would I choose to run another application to monitor something that I’m not interested in? BAH!

Whether I like it or not Twitter is becoming more and more important. All manner of individuals and organizations are now lending us a small window into their lives via Twitter. I am now seeing it everywhere. Acquisition rumors are rampant, the consensus is it is only a matter of time before one of the big boys sweeps in.

So when I received a free Mac app ‘EventBox’ courtesy of those kind guys at MacHeist, I decided to fight against my refusenik nature and have embarked on a little experiment.

I will try to keep an open mind, but I would like to know if my first assessment of Twitter were right or not. I will try and tweet regularly for about a week and find out.

I did a little research about available clients, updated my profile a little inspired @ormeski and @mrmatthamm and immersed myself in the Twitterverse.

I have installed Tweetie on my iPhone and will continue using EventBox for now, unless someone can suggest a better Mac client (the free-er, the better)?

Professor Wake will report back with his findings in another post.

I still refuse to use Facebook though.