I guess I could kind of take this as some kind acknowledgement of the article I wrote the other day in one way or another. The most recent BlackBerry Connection Newsletter which was sent out yesterday makes note of two new apps coming for Business users. I'm not so sure Twitter qualifies as a tool for business users specifically, but it was on the list as well as Linked In for BlackBerry.
The newsletter states that both apps will be arriving on the BlackBerry platform soon and offers up links on how to be informed of each applications release. While the newsletter certainly doesn't offer much up in the way of a timeline, it does offer me that slight hope we'll see both arrive soon. But I guess we are stuck waiting to find out what Research In Motion's definition of "soon" is. For me, it means today or tomorrow. I'd even go so far as to say next week. Anything beyond that you are no longer in the "soon" timeline.Read more
RIM played a part in the making of Twitter
Granted, it's a small part but when speaking of Twitters early days Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey credits the use of his then RIM 850 as a tool that helped spark status updates across the World. "I had a RIM pager, the 850, the first email device. I programed a system where I could fire off an email from that and set my status from anywhere. And it worked! And I was able to also at...
RIM teases those waiting for BlackBerry 6 on Twitter!
Research In Motion has been in overdrive lately with their marketing. They've taken over our TV's with BlackBerry Messenger commercials, web pages are now flooded with ads promoting BlackBerry Messenger and the BlackBerry Twitter team has been utilizing the social network to their advantage. The above pic is that of a tweet sent from the @BlackBerry account, promoting the usage of the...
Twitter for BlackBerry Review
Review of RIM's Twitter for BlackBerry Application[ youtube video link for mobile viewing ]*Please note: This review was conducted prior to yesterday's "official" release of version 1.0.0.45. The judges have kept that in mind when providing feedback and you should too in terms of judging the reviewer.*If you're on twitter you must have definitely needed to access it from the BlackBerry...
Twitter for BlackBerry Officially Announced in Invite-Only Beta; Contest: We've Got Invite Codes We're Giving Away!
Win an Invite Code to Download an Early Copy of Twitter for BlackBerry! Just leave a comment to this post that contains your twitter username. It's no secret that Research in Motion has been working on their own Twitter for BlackBerry Smartphones client for some time now. Word of it has popped up on the blogs a few times now and we've seen it make tweets and it has even been...