When the original Twitter for BlackBerry was launched back in April, it started off as a beta invite only system then, moved to a full blown beta for everyone to download and try out. Now, here we are a few short months later and Research In Motion is soon to be rolling out the full launch and removing the beta tag from the app. A few things have changed since its intial release and a few more will be added for the full launch all of which, is based off of the user feedback given during the beta period testing. Check out the changes after the break.
The Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones beta started in April and during the course of the preview, RIM released one update to the application.
The full launch will include support for several additional languages:
Features at launch:
New features during the beta:
The full launch will include support for several additional languages:
- Portuguese EU
- Japanese
- Indonesian
- Russian
- Turkish
- Dutch
- Korean
Features at launch:
- Push Notifications for Direct Messages
- Timeline Support
- Following and Followers
- Posting, Sending, Deleting , Replying and Retweeting Tweets
- User/Saved/Keyword/Proximity Search
- Tweet Photos/Links
- Trending Topics
- Seamless integration into core BlackBerry applications
- URL Shortening
- Auto-Update
New features during the beta:
- Quote Tweets (editing retweets)
- Auto Complete for @ usernames
- View Photos from Yfrog & Tweetphoto
- View Geotagged Tweets
- Personal Info Guard
- Hotkeys for Navigation
- Report as Spam