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RIM Advertising Their Twitter Client For BlackBerry In India?

by Bla1ze on 10 Feb 2010 07:23 AM
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RIM Advertising Their Twitter Client For BlackBerry In India?

Hey, it's no secret. Much like the BlackBerry Tour 9650 and the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 we all know "Twitter For BlackBerry" is coming at some point in time, we just don't know when exactly. Alas, I guess we can take this latest piece of information spotted by Rajrani in our very own forums as even further confirmation. When I look at this info, I see one of two things here:

1). RIM actually is advertising their RIM-built Twitter for BlackBerry.

2). They are using the Twitter name as selling leverage in India.

BlackBerry users know they can access many Twitter clients on their devices. For that matter even the mobile Twitter site is accessible enough through the BlackBerry browser. So, I guess there is the distinct chance for a third slot there. Being that RIM knows they have a Twitter client coming, it's not fully completed yet but they are using the Twitter name as leverage in the mean time cause they know no matter what, users can still access Twitter.

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Posted by zkyevolved Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

Hmmm this is interesting. I want to see it :)

FIRST POST EVER :D woopieee

 
 
Posted by mookish Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

At this point, it looks like they're just using the twitter name, notice the "R" or "TM" after Blackberry, FB, Yahoo and WLM, but nothing after Twitter...

 
 
Posted by Xopher Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

Interesting red Curve as well...

 
 
Posted by WyckedAnkh Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

If it's anything like their FB app, I would stay away...

 
 
Posted by jlb21 Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

To me, they are just listing the popular ways to stay in touch with your friends. One of those is Twitter. I don't take it as saying anything about a native Twitter client.

As noted, they're just leveraging the Twitter name.

 
 
Posted by JasW Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

There are enough decent Twitter apps out there for the BB. However, there is only ONE Facebook app for the BB. It's made by RIM, and it is an utter abomination. I would suggest that RIM devote their Add-On App development resources to drastically improving their FB app rather than reinventing the Twitter wheel.

 
 
Posted by wdfly Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

i don't think they are advertising an app, they are just saying that you can use twitter with a blackberry is all, and we all know that you can use twitter with a blackberry.

 
 
Posted by bryanwithay Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

i'm gonna agree with jasw fix whats broken instead of releasing more half assed apps. fix the facebook app and get the bb browser up to par with some other 3rd party browsers out there and on top of it all, lets try to roll out some of the new devices.

 
 
Posted by Cadillac.Cowboy Thursday, Feb 11, 2010 730 days ago

Yep, add me to that list too!

Whilst I don't think the Facebook client is as bad as some make out, it IS starting to show it's age, offers very few benefits over Facebook Mobile and certain functionality simply doesn't work or doesn't work properly (for example, many of the links within Facebook for BlackBerry simply send a user to the home page of Facebook Mobile, instead of the intended destination within Facebook/Facebook Mobile)!

As for the browser, well overall I think it's actually pretty good (yes, I can hear everyone groan from here... lol), though in saying that, I've never used the Apple iPhone 3GS' browser (Opera Mini and Opera Mobile are probably the most advanced "mobile" browsers I've used), so it could just be that I don't know what I'm missing out on...

Then there's the whole "Twitter" thing - most global surveys show that there is a LOT of Twitter users out there, but that there is limited growth and a H-U-G-E percentage of Twitter's users are inactive or infrequent users!

With statistics like this coming out frequently, it might not be such a bad thing to give the Twitter client a miss, or at least delay it whilst RIM focuses on fixing existing issues, as raised by their users...

 
 
Posted by zarzamora_hermosa Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

There IS a difference between the Twitter service and RIM's potential release of a Twitter app. This is clearly NOT the latter.

 
 
Posted by redsoxrocker Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

how did anyone notice the words "twitter" on there, i was stuck on the red curve hahaha

 
 
Posted by experiment626 Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

I agree.That red color looks great.I don't think any NA providers offer that on their 85xx Curves.

 
 
Posted by Bla1ze Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

TELUS offers the BlackBerry Curve 8530 in Red. - http://is.gd/85NFA

 
 
Posted by sunny24 Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 731 days ago

although india is making moves, on my recent trip i attempted to add bb service on airtel and was told that it could take a month to register and that if i wanted immediate registration i had to sign up for a 3 month plan. so although they may be pushing these new features through, they are pointless if the services are unavailable, btw i was very upset with not having data on my bb for 3 WHOLE WEEKS!! lol