BlackBerry Apps

Twitter for BlackBerry Beta v1.0.0.37 Leaked

by Adam Zeis

on 1 Apr 2010 11:14 AM

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Courtesy of @BBTweeps we have a fresh leak of the Official Twitter for BlackBerry. We thought the client would be available by now, but it seems its had some hold ups, so hopefully this leak will keep everyone happy for another week or two :-) Features in this version include:

Option to disable the navigation bar
Option to disable the update box in the application home screen
Option to set the font for your time line
View and create lists
When viewing user profile, click on the avatar to enlarge
Option to edit profile
The application now uses data cache for faster performance

The app is currently in beta so you may have some issues, but give it a go and let us know how its working out for you in the comments. Hit the link below to download.

Download Twitter for BlackBerry Beta 1.0.0.37 >>

Filed Under: BlackBerry Apps; Tags: social networks, Twitter, Twitter for BlackBerry

188 Comments

Posted by pgrudo01 Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Off the bat I think UberTwitter looks more appealing.

Posted by BBThemes Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

as mentioned its alot faster, and seems to load more tweets at a time, they still need to go lower than every 5 mins though.

now patiently waiting for BBM 5.0.1 leak :)

Posted by pks Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

I assume there's no push?

Posted by syllableslayer Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

There's actually push for direct messages! Try it out, its great :>

Posted by eye4ni Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

push only for direct messages. If they could use push for @replies it would be near-perfect

Posted by neuropolis Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

for both @mentions and DMs.

Posted by CrackBerryV79 Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

'Push' is only for the DMs... you can set your notifications for 'replies only' if you wish, but they'll only appear with your refreshes (whatever you have them set for).

Still, that's a pretty neat feature. Not quite 'Push' but I do enjoy not having that icon pop up for everything.

Posted by eduardo.objio Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

I advise you to d/l again, coz' I pretty much have both mentions for DM and replies. This leak feels very solid, I like it a lot and also, it says that this "pilot app" will only be valid until June 30th 2010. Hopefully before that we'll see the final version.

Posted by CrackBerryV79 Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

That's not "Push" - only the DMs are 'pushed' to your phone; they come through as soon as they are received. Mentions can be set in your notifications, but they'll show when your app refreshes. If you refresh every 5 min or so, you probably couldn't teLl the difference.

Posted by eduardo.objio Friday, Apr 02, 2010 681 days ago

Oh I see, and yea I have it set up for 5 min. Still, previous beta didn't have it, so I like the fact that this one does. Thanks for clarifying!

Posted by jbenkelman Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

I have been testing since it came out...and I love it. It does everything I need, with a great CLEAN look to it. Uber started looking too "free" and not professional anymore

EDIT**
This version ROCKS. The new features to update your profile, picture, lists, and replies is awesome! This is the best I have ever used.

Its a million times faster too! AWESOME!

Im a big twitter fan, and this is very fun! @jbenkelman

Posted by Johnmar3 Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Lmao isn't iit great

Posted by kid108 Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

Posted by Mystro Biggz Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

This Twitter app is VERY nice. I liked Ubertwitter, but I didn't like the flooding of notificatons. This one just gives the red star and you can go from there. It's neat, clean and works so much better for my casual usage of Twitter. I am not a hardcore user, so this is perfect. Always liked the clean looks of the RIM versions of these apps, now, if they just work as good as they look. Twitter, so far, so good.

Posted by oanda8311 Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Tried the RIM twitter app and I still think SocialScope is the best app out there.

Posted by elgrant Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

I agree...social scope #1...

What I don't like about this twitter app is that when you type "@" it doesn't suggest names, like ubertwitter and social scope do.

Posted by netrellis Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

Agree, the @ autocomplete is something I miss, but I would imagine they'll add that at some point. One puzzling thing I noticed, unable to completley exit the program; well I haven't discovered a way. ????

Posted by girlontherun Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

to exit, just go to options and logout. otherwise, you are always logged into the app.

Posted by bigjman Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

if you're composing a direct message, it will do the auto-complete once you start typing the recipient's name.

Posted by fleander Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

have SocialScope as well...think that if they do not update soon though, their features will be old. Something that is missing in the BB version - insert URL / and the chat feel of DMs like Social has it.

Posted by RedBank Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Since I was expecting to try the beta BBM today (date got pushed up).

UberTwitter vs BBTwitter is the test for today

Posted by kellidotca Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

But it would be perfect if it allowed more than one account.

Posted by elgrant Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

DITTO!!! And name suggestion when typing "@"

Posted by sgtmilstack Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

T4BB maybe faster and all, but that absent feature (and others) puts a dent in efficiency. Push mentions is not enough for me to switch.

UT for my Storm.

Posted by demzzy Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

You still can't edit the retweet which is minor I guess for what else has been fixed... But still it would of been a welcomed addition..

Posted by waker Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

what the heck? do I need a beta key or something?

Posted by LeisThatGirl Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Trying to install using d/m and its telling me the applications isnt compatible with my device? I have tour running os 5.0?? Thx!

Posted by stoneland Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

I think I still prefer UT for the option to edit a retweet. I like the interface though. Nice and clean.

Posted by Everlast04x Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

UberTwitter is better

Posted by shabbs Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

I gotta disagree... so far, this is blowing UberTwitter out of the water.

Posted by stoneland Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

i have is that you can't edit a retweet. it's also a little slow for me, especially when typing a tweet. otherwise i love the design and colors used. everything looks cleaner and professional.

Posted by D_Town Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

why do you say that?

personally i prefer the multiple accounts on uber as well as the fact that i can read complete tweets without having to scroll. I think they are both nice, but not sure if either blows the other one out the water.

Posted by girlontherun Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

i'm not discounting ubertwitter just yet. but since using this for about a week now, i haven't had the urge to return to uber.

just a note: i love how images are displayed as opposed to uber. that is a really cool effect.

ubertwitter also ate up a lot of my battery life (the latest update, i noticed this). the official beta hasn't done that yet, and it doesn't appear it will. another plus for this version.

also, i haven't noticed any slow loading. it loads faster than UT.

Posted by JerseyBred323 Friday, Apr 02, 2010 681 days ago

UT is better. T4BB is has a very nice UI and a lot of promise but it's lacking features that UT has had for a while. The developers over at RIM need to review UT's features and then aim to outdo UT with their official release.

Posted by robertdusa Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Just tried to update my previously leaked install of Twitter for Blackberry. Followed the link, chose OS 4.5, and was asked if I wanted to update 1.0.0.28 to 1.0.0.28.

Any luck on the higher OS versions?

Aside:
I too used UberTwitter for a time, but found that my battery life was affected, and it seemed to chew through a lot of memory. I've found the RIM client to be much better on both, possibly due to the push nature of the updates. Of course ymmv, and even then you still may not like it if you are a Twitter power user.

Posted by Schmiesus Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

I noticed with the newest version of ubertwitter that my phone was barely making it through the day.

so far i'm liking the Rim version seems quick.

works fine on OS 5.0 using the newest version of the beta

Posted by qu3lly Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Yeah I noticed a battery strain after updating UBER...

Posted by robertdusa Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Just tried again, almost an hour later. 1.0.0.37 downloading now.

I hope this 'leak' stays up until the end of next week, waiting for Rogers to deliver my new 9700, and I don't want to have to use UT until RIM makes the app publicly available.

No hate towards UT mind you, I just digged the RIM client over the competition.

Posted by Blacklac Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Do you currently have a phone? If so, just download it and do a "3rd Party App Backup" and it will save the file. I doubt they would pull all the links anyways.

Posted by robertdusa Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

If worse comes to worse, then I'll give that a try.

Totally off topic; when I do get.the 9700, can I just cram my SD card into it? Meaning, will it preserve the contents without reformating, and just 'go' with it?

Posted by Yandar Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

Yes. SD cards are fully transferable without damaging the contents.

Posted by robertdusa Sunday, Apr 04, 2010 678 days ago

Thanks for the info.

Posted by xKarlaCruz Saturday, Apr 03, 2010 680 days ago

how did you manage to download 1.0.0.37 on OS 4.5? :(

Posted by robertdusa Sunday, Apr 04, 2010 678 days ago

I'm not smart enough to know the back end of things. I just followed the links on the post, and chose OS 4.5. Maybe if you give it a try again it might work for you? As mentioned, the first time I tried, it wanted to download 1.0.0.28, which I already had installed. An hour later I tried again and it downloaded 1.0.0.37 successfully.

Hope you got it working.

Posted by robertdusa Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

Nice speed improvment on my 8310, can only imagine what it'll be like on the 9700.

Now if only RIM would update the Facebook app.

Posted by chirmer Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 681 days ago

+1. I wish they would too! :'-(

Posted by Kullkid92x Friday, Apr 02, 2010 680 days ago

YES! the Facebook app needs some major improvements! idk what they're waiting for...

Posted by archpopoy Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Like somebody suggested before - RIM should've just bought Uber or SocialScope. Although the app seems to have improved, it's still has ways to go to measure up with Uber & SocialScope...

Just my opinion.

Posted by iggie2010 Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Been testing it since the first beta came out, now installing the newest version! :D

Posted by dnlgee Thursday, Apr 01, 2010 682 days ago

Prefer this to the previous beta release, still a bit ugly and could use a few more optimisations. Glad it now has mention notifications.

IMO TweetGenius > T4BB > UT