In terms of Twitter clients on Google’s Android mobile operating system, you’re not spoilt for choice. Among the many many clients that have appeared out there, the three “big guns” are actually pretty different. Twitter’s own, Seesmic’s and TweetDeck’s offerings each have their own advantages and disadvantages. Having given them all a good go over the past few days, I’ve come up with why I don’t really get along with any of them.

My first “Promoted Account” showed up in the #newtwitter interface a little earlier.

Along with Promoted Trends and Top Tweets, Promoted Accounts are suggestions based on who you follow in order to follow the related – promoted – account. So far they’ve kept quite well out of the way for the ones I’m not interested in, and this is a seemingly appropriate one given the F1 link.

More on Promoted Accounts.

Earlier this month Google announced App Inventor, an easy way for anyone to get started on building Android applications. Earlier this week I got myself an invite, and headed over to see what’s what.

App Inventor is in its very early stages. It’s a closed beta, with invites going out to people when Google have the capacity and find suitable people. This shows, as there are still some clunky parts and limitations that will have to be overcome before release, but other than that it seems like an excellent preview of what’s to come.

Google Buzz seems quite empty at the moment. And judging by how much buzz it’s getting (pun not intended…) a lot of people seem to have given up on it.

The reason I say it is quite empty is not through lack of content. I follow a few people from around my area (but not many, it has to be said) so that could be improved. And it’s not that there isn’t that much content in there – there is loads (probably too much). It is just that there seems to be no original content on there whatsoever.

In the beginning, it was all too easy. Sign in to Google Mail, hit Buzz, check all the boxes for “Connect my Twitter!”, “Connect my Blog!”, “Connect my toilet!” and there you go, instant Buzz account! No maintenance required.

That seems to have done more harm than good. There is pretty much no original content created on Buzz now, making it a desolate wasteland where you just have people’s tweets talking to one another. Boring.

So, what are we going to do about this? Yes, we. Because it’s not Google’s fault that it’s turned out so badly. The connection options got people interested and using it to begin with. Yes it’s our fault, its users, that it has all gone wrong. So here’s what I propose to fix it.

1. Unlink everything

For the love of all things social networking, please unlink all that stuff that doesn’t need to be linked. Buzz can stand up on its own without requiring drip-feeding from other platforms.

Of course, some stuff would be quite useful – Picasa or Google Reader for example. But I don’t need your tweets – that’s another platform entirely.

2. Use it!

Buzz is tightly integrated with Android, so users of those phones really don’t have an excuse. You can grab the Buzz widget for your home screen by scanning the QR code below.

3. Find people

Buzz has great discovery tools for finding people who are nearby or who you know through other means.

Again, if you’re on Android, then check out the Buzz integration with the latest versions of the Maps application, and see who’s buzzing nearby.

ITV haven’t had a very good few days.

Error after catastrophic error have caused them a substantial PR disaster, with Twitter users lamenting (at least when Twitter was up) about the poor service being provided.

Here’s why I think ITV should left to wither and important broadcasts given to the BBC.