This morning I was going to catch up on a very backlogged amount of Twittering. A running tab list, so to speak, of idea farts and replies which I haven’t been keeping up with.

Why?

Half the time Twitter’s web page can’t log me in, or won’t load. Twitterrific times itself out and can’t process any more tweets, and Twitbin just freezes in the “loading tweets” mode. Some days my txt tweets don’t even make it into my active tweet time line. Twhirl seems to be Twitter’s only saving grace right now as far as reliability goes, but I’ll get to that in a moment.

So one of my questions this morning was; why Tweet at all if it isn’t time accurate and you have to load 3 different clients just to get a Tweet through to your time line? My answer to myself was of course, you don’t Tweet, you just occasionally go on and watch everyone else do it. And this, in a round about way, is why I dislike social networking and internet based social groups as a whole.

I spent time this morning reading about different Mac/OSX based apps for Twitter, especially those built on the Adobe Air platform. I was ready and set to install Snitter, Tweetr, and Twhirl (for Mac) until I realized that when each application asked for the “ok” from me, to have their program installed on my computer and I either had to hit the “cancel” or “install” button on the screen where it lists the; Publisher, Application, and System Access, 2 out of 3 of my downloads showed “Unknown Publisher” and “System Access : Unrestricted.”

Basically that means that; “the publisher of the application cannot be determined, and that the application may access your file system and the internet: which may put your computer at risk.”

Screen shots of each of the “Install” windows for those three Twitter clients:

Twhirl:

Snitter:

Tweetr:

I haven’t installed any of the three. Probably because I’m paranoid. It’s like the disclaimers that are listed at the beginning of everything now; Do you even take the time to read them? Or do you just hit “I Agree and Accept” and get on with it.

I take the time and read those, and sometimes I do disagree.