Twitter has become the latest social networking craze and an ideal way of
updating your friends and followers with information relevant to your daily
experience. This can be a simple update of what you’re doing from hour to hour,
observations or, for a business, it can be used to tell your users when a new
feature has been added to your software release or similar.
Problem is, whereas the Mac has well designed clients such as Twitterific,
the PC lacks a decent Twitter client. There are gadgets that enable you to
receive Twitter updates through Google Desktop or the Vista Sidebar, but it’s
better to have a simple tool that will enable you to receive updates via an
update in your System Tray and drop in an update from time-to-time.
Blu is a brand new Twitter client where the design has been the main focus.
It requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, which means it’s a Vista and Windows 7
only release. It looks like a Mac product, too. The only downside is that this
reliance on .NET Framework 3.5, means that it requires a significant amount of
memory just to send and receive basic Twitter notes. This will probably improve
as the application develops.
Blu will do everything you need from a Twitter client. View notes, read
conversations, reply and add your own thoughts. You can follow the development
of the app through Twitter too, offering your own feedback to the programmers.