I dont understand twitter....hey im sitting on my couch, getting a drink, now i have to pee...

I hate adds. I would rather pay 5.00 to have a program with out adds.

Ads dont bother me enough for me to pay

Ads weren't that bad on UT, like Viigo. But I understand that some ppl can't stand the ads.

ads in UT much more "obtrusive" than in viigo.
having the ads definitely affects performance, in both, however, and that's the biggest problem - not being able to scroll/view/etc b/c the ads are rotating/downloading

Didnt have them in the first place here in UK, have them on Viigo but you just forget they are there after using it all the time.

If it's free i almost expect ads, how else are the developers gonna make any money. I much rather have free with some non intrusive ads like UT had for that short time, and twitteriffic has on the iphone.

虽然讨厌广告，但还是感谢能提供一份带广告的免费版本，其实我会慎重考虑是否花$5购买一份。当然，前提是软件能让我感觉足够好

...will always bring ads. With the new UT the ads did not bother me. We are bombarded with hundreds of ads all day, but get used to them and eventually tune them out. I don't think the ads hindered performance at all. But to answer your original question, free with ads doesn't bother me one bit. I can use the extra 3.99 for coffee and a donut. :)

It's a great app that is constantly improving. I use it and will support it any way I can. I'm not going to sign up for Netflix or check out any other advertisers over my Blackberry though. If I want to do something like that, I'm going to wait until I am on an actual computer. 5 dollars for a year? That's nothing and I'd pay it in a heartbeat to keep using UberTwitter ad free.

I really enjoy UberTwitter and the developers should have some incentive to actually keep working on it. I haven't experienced any performance/usage issues with the tiny ad at the top.

they were entertaining ( :-p ), and I imagine the devs were making some cash off them...

But seriously, there are ads on every damn webpage, why not in a _free_ freakin' twitter app?? it's freakin' _twitter_ people!! its not like its some important business application or something...

jeez. people...

I updated my version last night and immediately noticed the ads at the top. I was already making plans to uninstall it and go to some other app. My phone will not be used for ad space. Sorry. I'd rather pay for it than have ads.

did not bother me at ALL! It is not like you had to see the Ad when you scrolled down to old tweets. Some ppl are just...never mind. I rather have sponsors pay the developers than pay out of my own pocket.

I did not mind the ads. As soon as you scrolled down they went away so they did not take up viewing space unless you were at the top tweet. If it helps pay the bills of the developers who are doing outstanding work so be it.

People should just stop whining. Ubertwitter is a great product and the developers are quick to respond with any concerns or bug reports.

Little tiny ad, generates a modest amount of revenue for a team that breaks their butts to develop a good product, and that's a problem? If there is no reward for doing the work, why bother? The ad wasn't a problem for me - you only see it a few seconds and you're down the page anyway. I will gladly pay a modest amount for the 'full' version - but could have lived a long time with those little ads. Developers (I'm not one) deserve some sort of return.

i got the latest version and the ads didn't really bother me. i don't see why you would even pay just to get rid a a small banner that pops up every 20-30 tweets. it's not a big deal.

I just downloaded it again but it still has the ads in it. What's the final synopsis on this? Is the paid option already available?

I downloaded the updated beta for UberTwitter and noticed the ads, and didn't think there was anything wrong with including them. Their appearance is very infrequent and they're not blatant or invasive in any way.

The people who are complaining about these ads need to stop and understand that programming anything isn't cheap and quick, ESPECIALLY if it's done with a small team of people with little or no budget. It doesn't matter if ads were available in the previous version or not, these people should be compensated for time and efforts, especially for offering one of the best Twitter apps available for Blackberries.

All of the complainers should turn your focus to the Blackberry apps that are WAY overpriced, rather than complain about a FREE quality application that included ads in one of their updates as a way to generate a little extra revenue to the dev team for the work they do. I guarantee the amount generated through ads probably isn't very much, either.

Way to go, complainers. Nicely done.

It depends on the cost of the app. If it's too expensive I guess I will have to live with the ads if I can't have a free similar app with no ads. The thing is that ads, in many cases make the app slower and sometimes the ads get in the way and it's distracting. It's all about options, if there aren't I'll use the paid app with the ads.

Given a choice, I will generally take the paid app without ads, assuming it has a free trial. If an application doesn't have a free trial, I will keep looking. I don't want to pay for something I don't like.

I had no problems with the ads using UT. The software is awesome and free, if the developers want to try and make money they should have that ability. There's probably more spam in peoples twitter feeds than the little banner in UT.

If a paid version was released I would pay for it and it'd be the first app I've bought.

People get spoiled when something is free.

As far as ads go, I DON'T MIND ADS. I understand the developers have to raise capital. The problem is the real estate on our small screens (Storm excluded).

I've sent feedback to UberTwitter a few times about the ads. My recommendation is for them to seriously study the placement and size of ads in Viigo. In Viigo - which many of us use - the ads are there, but they aren't so obtrusive. If you look at the very top of the UberTwitter app the space that say "home" or "update your status" is 1/8 inch wide. They could make it 3/16 of an inch wide, throw an ad in there and no one should have a reason to complain.

Flip side: I'd pay $5.00 for a year ad free subscription. That's a fair price point to me.

Why look at ads on UT when I can just go to one of the other 3000 twitter clients that don't have ads? Nothing is stopping me. Sure, they aren't as good as UT, but if it means I can't accidentally click an ad, then so be it.

I agree, putting up with a few ads isn't that big of a deal. If I created a program like UberTwitter I would want some compensation for the work put into it. just my 2 cents.

I stopped using it due to the adds being there. Good to here they are gone. As soon as they come back, I'll be on the search for something else.

I don't mind the ads, they are not that annoying. I understand people don't like them but it's a personal preference.

I had absolutely no issue with their ads. My first reaction when I saw the ads was negative, but after an hour I was over it and barely even noticed the ad, especially since the ad scrolls of the screen.

Which would I prefer? I like to have the option of both paid/no ad and free/ads. FWIW, UT is an awesome Twitter client and I would pay $5 for it.

The ad was too large and a bit distracting. However, I understand the need to make money. I will be happy to pay for the no-ads version.

remember how well the free computers in 98 sold? We give you a free computer but the right side of your screen will always have changing adds on it....didn't do so well.

I can deal with it... if the free app has ads, *if* the ads do not hinder performance of the app. That was my only issue yesterday, I found myself not seeing updates because the app was waiting for the ad to load.

That said free app that rocks with small ads is not a big deal to me. I just hope they maintain the option for a free app.

I agree with you Blaize..people want their cake and eat it to. Its a great free twitter client and people can't put up with a little advertisement to help support the makers of ubertwiter. After all they have been coming correct with the updates to make sure it works great and this is the thanks we give them. This may force them to start charging for the app in order to generate the revenue their losing from no more ads. Plus the less money they take in, the less they can work on the app to make it top notch. People are so spoiled and selfish these days.

free with ads. no doubt.

I fully support UT's need for revenue. The ads did not hinder my performance, nor were they any more intrusive than say the ad panel on any Google product that is free. People need to realize that not everyone who creates a program does it as a hobby, for some people this is a livelyhood. If we don't support them the product goes away.

Just look to your right as you're reading these posts and count the ads...come on, let's whine about those ads too! Lets just whine about very shortcoming on every *FREE* app!

Ads don't bother me as on my iphone all of my apps had ads so I guess I'm used to them. as long as they just sit at the top of the screen harmlessly I can ignore them. I'm willing to put up with them because I refuse to pay for twitter (or facebook, myspace etc.) clients when i can just go to the browser and do it for free, but obviously it costs the makers to run the app and so it's perfectly fine if they want to put ads in to pay the bills!

The adds were not bad at all, and I find it ridiculous that ppl would even complain about it. You got this GREAT app that developers are constantly working on to make better...PLUS ITS FREE, and you complain about a little (Blackberry focused) add here and there??? Puleeease.

They've made an excellent app, and they deserve revenue. The adds are probably a lot more useful than the tweets of some of the ppl ur following. Lets be real.

i don't really mind the ads in UT as long as they are limited to the top border and not throughout the web.

pay to place an ad..

Why Pay for an app that you use to access a free application?? not to mention there are loads of twitter clients out there!!

Seems strange to me....

New UT ads did bug me for a bit...still undecided.
As for paid subs...i will leave UT in a heartbeat if that happens!

Hands down that's the best choice. Especially in today's BB App World environment where you really want to test an app to see if it works on your device or if you'll actually even use it without huge memory leaks.

PLEASE make half the screen ads if that's what it takes! You could always offer a $1.99 paid version for those who love the app so much they won't need the ads.

Hands down that's the best choice. Especially in today's BB App World environment where you really want to test an app to see if it works on your device or if you'll actually even use it without huge memory leaks.

PLEASE make half the screen ads if that's what it takes! You could always offer a $1.99 paid version for those who love the app so much they won't need the ads.

They did affect performance (not that UberTwitter was fast anyway). In REALITY, how many average or above average Tweeple are actually going to click on those ads enough to be of any benefit or payment to UberTwiter? Most people are on there to give updates about themselves or read others' updates and could give a fig less about the stupid ad UberTwiter thinks will turn them a profit. Make your money UberTwiter, that's what the world revolves around but get over yourselves.

I cannot believe how much time and effort has been put into this product. The ÜberTwitter folks are constantly releasing updates and improvements, and have never yet asked for anything in return until the product was good enough to justify some compensation via inconsequential ads or small payment. Instead of receiving the justified kudos they deserve, they are instead treated with mind-blowingly arrogant statements like - "In REALITY, how many average or above average Tweeple are going to click on those ads enough to be of any benefit or payment to UberTwiter [sic]."

In REALITY, who are you to decide how the good folks at ÜberTwitter might be compensated for their hard work, j3nnybean? I wonder if you have ever once worked for a living. What else do you expect to receive free of charge in perpetuity?

I don't Give a F**k, it's Free for goodness sake!

So, put me in the "free with ads" boat!

i'll be searching for something else if the ads come back. UT have made a mistake imho!

I didn't mind the ads either. It's a great program and it gets the bills paid.

I'd gladly drop $5 for a twelve-month subscription to UberTwitter. As an end-user, isn't it my responsibility to reward top-notch developers for their BlackBerry applications rather than some third-party ad agency?

Those ads on the top didn't hurt anything, I will NOT pay for twitter. I will find another server. They have to pay for it someway ............

..but I do think they should have waited until they had a paid option before putting them in. I'll live with the ads once we have them, and will probably be willing to pay up the moment they add Facebook integration into UT.

Being an avid reader of the Crackberry site I was forewarned that ads would eventually pop up on UT. When they did I was neither surprised or annoyed. If you want a good product for free it's rather juvenile to expect the bills just magically pay themselves. Either pay for something without the ads or get over it.

Ads seem to be gone now for me
:)

When I first upgraded to the new UT, I saw the ads at the top. Every time after that I didn't see them. Guess my eyes were trained on the important :-) Either that or they just weren't all that intrusive!

It really isn't that bad. I would rather have a free app with an ad banner then a paid app.

I dont see a problem with it. Im on the Tour and it was running just fine for me. And the adds always stayed at the top for me. Also I like Ubertwitter alot so I will look into a paid version of it if its the right price I deem justifilble but at the same time I might move onto tweetgenius if they are around the same price.

I upgraded until yesterday but I never saw the ads that people speak off, and I have a blackberry storm so I don't know if that made a difference or not.

I had a problem with the ads because 1) I work in Times Sq. and take the subway so I get more than my daily dose of advertisements. The last place I want to see ads is on my personal phone. 2) The ads were significantly slowing down my updates. 3) The screen shots on Ubertwitters site conveniently did not show the ads. I get that it's not cheap to run this twitter client and I love Uber so when they do release the paid version I will be paying!

Thank goodness they cut off the ads. I'm all for advertisements to support the dev team, but if they plan on offering an ad free version then they need to do so when they incorporate ads. They don't HAVE too, but why announce an ad free version that will be coming out after the newly ad-filled version.

They should've kept the ad-free pro version quiet and then released it later.

They've been talking about ads for a long time and finally sprung them. I would love to just pay them directly and not have to deal with the spam.

I'd rather have a paid app that's a paid app. I don't want to pay for a year. If I buy 1.0, I should get all the 1.x updates. Making it yearly is just an incentive for them to space out updates more than 1 year apart. I know that what I've got wouldn't stop working and I don't mind paying for software I like, but don't try and make it sound like I'm buying something when its a subscription.

That said, I didn't mind the ads that were in it.

I like free, free is good. And I'm perfectly fine with smallish ads like the one Ubertwitter had initially. But for those who don't mind paying, why not just give them one without ads for a price?

It's even better, since it pushes people to pay for an ad-free one, while still allowing developers to make money off ads for people who download the free version. A bit more work, sure, but it gives two revenue streams instead of just one.

Here's what UT thinks about their opinionated users:

http://twitpic.com/dqvuv

Still want to give them $5? Thank you @michael_crook

My ubertwitter didnt have any ads and i still cant make it out but agree with everyone else its free and a great app so why complain about it where else would they of got the funding etc to create such a great app and roll it out for FREE!!

I think my answer would vary depending on the type of app. Generally, I suppose I wo9uld rather pay a nominal fee for an ad free version, but the higher the cvost of the app, the more I'd be willing to deal with ads, as long as they didn't ovewrwhelm.

I completely agree that the Ubertwitter ads were not an issue for me. Very unobtrusive.

as much as i hate the ad. i would rather have no pay with ad up top

Paid with no ads as phone screen real estate is more important.

i really dont care ether way...but for an app like ubertwitter ads could possibly get in the way of what i would want to do...so as for paying for an ad free experiance, it would depend on the app

They put one ad at the top or bottom of the page when you opened UberTwitter and when you scrolled it scrolled with the tweets. I agree with Bla1ze and think that the makers of UberTwitter deserve the funds for making such a great Twitter app for the BlackBerry.

Now to the question at hand, I would proabably pay for the no ad version to help the developers since I probably wouldn't click on the ads in that version.

Free App with Ads. Good grief, one little segment the size of an average tweet at the top of the page and people complain? It's being provided as free. Get over it. Pandora has the same model and I don't mind hearing an audio bumper once in awhile. The whole "free" mentality on the web has people forgetting that apps (and websites) are part of business and a business invests money to make a profit, otherwise, it's a hobby.

I'm going to pay for UT but didn't find the ads a problem at all. Ads are needed for free apps, so I'm ok with that.

i was momentarily upset when i saw the ad, but once i noticed it was just at the top it isnt bad. if it was littered throughout the different tweets, now that would be unbearable and i would go back to twitterberry. i think the ads are worth it.
i would much prefer a free app with not-over-the-top advertising than one i had to pay for. i cant see paying for an app when there are free ones and all it really needs to do is send my tweet. i am sure this is different for heavier twitter users.

Viigo has the best ads for BlackBerry. They're small and unobtrusive. Even though I click on them accidentally sometimes, they generally don't get in the way of using the app in any way.

In UberTwitter (I use UberTwitter, TweetGenius, Twitter Berry TwitterFon and Tweet Deck) the ad took up way too much space, about 1/5 of the screen. To me, that is way too much for an advertisement. Web pages have advertisements, but generally they're placed so that they're as out of the way as possible. In UberTwitter, unfortunately the nature of the app makes the ads in that position a big distraction. I fly through my apps, scrolling down, then hitting "T" to move back up, and that ad really got in the way of a smooth Twitter experience for me. I just kept fucking landing on it.

On the iPhone, because of the screen size, an ad in that position (like the free version of TwitterFon) isn't too bad. It becomes smaller and due to the nature of scrolling with an iPhone it's more unlikely that you will ever accidentally "click" it.

I'd much rather pay $5 for an ad-free version of Uber. Maybe once TweetGenius adds more functionality to their app I'd stop using UberTwitter, but for now, on BlackBerry, Uber gives me the functionality that I need away from my Mac. Since I started seeing ads though, I use Uber a lot less.

TweetGenius, come on. Get your act together and put more features in there! Damned program went back into beta and we haven't heard a peep from the BoyGenius guys. It's like it was sucked into their anuses, never to return.

PB

Free is always good. For the little bit of time the ads were showing up on Ubertwitter, they didn't bother me too much. Once I scrolled down the page, the ad was out of sight and and out mind, so no big deal for me.

Paid App With No Ads

Personally, I felt the way UberTwitter did adverts was a bit... odd.

The ad banner remained at the top, even if you refreshed and had new tweets in my experience on a Storm 9530.

iPhone and Mac Twitter apps use an advert model, but these adverts aren't fixed. they flow with your tweets as they arrive, they remain in your tweet "stream" but move, progressively getting lower and lower as you get more tweets, until another advert is queued into place.

I felt this was the model UberTwitter should have taken, I will personally be purchasing the ad-free subscription when it is released, as I really don't have time for adverts getting in my way, but I feel that those who use Twitter every now and again (when compared to me, who uses it constantly) will find that the adverts will be tolerable.

Personally, I see the trade off as this

UberTwitter: Has adverts, but also has larger feature set, better support, nicer UI overall.

TwitterBerry: No adverts, Somewhat shi**y app in general, even more so with UberTwitter becoming more popular.

So personally, I'd take the adverts in exchange for a better app.

I liked the ads, it seemed to stay at the top of the last tweet from the last time I looked. It let me know were I left off real quick.

Ubertwitter is free, and the best twitter client in my opinion. I'll take the ads to keep the free. Good deal, i think. Just pretend they were always there.

I do not mind the advertisements, but for a program like Feed Demon who originally was a paid product that became free, it became ad-ware and the author refused to make a paid version that would turn off the advertisements.

People like choices. I want to see it where if you pay for it you could have no advertisements, or you can donate and keep the advertisements. It would be your call.

.....advertisements are ok in a free app......and all social network are full of it!!

i'd say both. i bought tweetgenius and if this is better when paid id buy it.

I thought everyone was over reacting to the ads. It was only one ad at the top of the screen that goes away as soon as you scroll down to read other tweets.

Ubertwitter does have the right to try to generate revenue. How can you complain about a great app that is free anyway?

i think this time this ubertwitter do have make a respectful move...everything seem promising now, except if USD5 per year is still bit...It will make me think again actually, but if one time SURE no pro, will buy it.

It really wasn't THAT bad...

Free Apps wit apps is preferable..

they should leave the free ad-supported version for unpaid users & remove the ads for paid users.