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:
- 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
Reader comments
Twitter for BlackBerry - Soon to be out of beta and heading into full launch
I was using the beta version and when i started a tweet with @ it would allow me to scroll through my contacts to make the tweet. Did this feature get taken away? I downloaded the upgrade and it doesn't do this anymore?
Plus kind of disapointed to the open to last read tweet feature isn't put in this release.
since the official release was downloaded i no longer get the little icon on my home screen when new tweets cycle nor does my page refresh when i go into twitter unless i refresh page this i find very irritating
the ability to read again from the last tweet after I close the app.. that is important!
Wait, so I can see geotagged tweets but I can't add geotag information to my tweets?
what the hell is the betazone good for?
Am I the only one who likes to mark tweets as favorites and then view them later? None of the apps that I have seen allow for favs to be viewed - either as a separate tab or in the menu (the only one I know that does that is the seesmic for bb app BUT the alerts on that are broken).
Ubertwitter allows favorites to be viewed AFAIK.
T4BB has always allowed you to view your favorites.
So is the push notification for direct messages new or should it have already been working with version .40? I have BerryBuzz set to notify me with a blue LED when I get a mention or direct message but neither works. I do get the Twitter "t" icon when I have a mention or DM though. Is that what they mean? Not the LED notification?
I'm getting that too. I was confused, because I thought it meant one new tweet, but now I see it must be DM or @ mention. Was making me mad, cuz I didn't know why it wouldn't go away if I checked the timeline, thanks for the clue, it has to be that.
Yes, the little "t" icon is for mentions or DMs only.
Will this be a free app or are we expected to pay for it. Anyway I like this it needs some work but for now its not to bad.
It is free, just like the facebook app.
still seems to eat up a lot of memory whilst in use which UT doesnt do. Anyone else have this? 9700 running .743 Rogers release.
If you look at your followers you can see the people that are following and if you're following them back with a little green check mark by the box. I don't think ubertwitter has that!
Meh. & more importantly
What is the need for multiple accounts?
Downloaded the upgrade a while ago and while it's definitely way better now, UberTwitter is still the one I'm using most of the time. :/
I really like the app's integration with the OS, the smooth scrolling, the pics that can be zoomed... but still, Ubertwitter is more appealing to me. I am waiting for the latest released to be, well, released soon!
i see that they are trying to implement before releasing OS6.0 out into the jungle. still wish they did multiple accts already. reason i still use socialscope. at least you can use 2 twitter acts and ur facebook as well as foursquare stuff. pretty one stop shop.
I dont know if this is the same for everyone but when I add pictures to my twitter posts the picture on twitpic is not full size. Other twitter clients allow me to post my pictures in their entirety but the twitter app from RIM just makes a small version. Does anyone else have this problem and does anyone know if this is going to be addressed in future updates? Thanks
Wow .. scrolling on my 9550 is very smooth now, much better looking, pics are loading almost instantly also. I would give this a good hard look before you dismiss it as an option!
I wish T4BB would pick up on your timeline where you last stopped reading.
if you leave the latest tweet highlighted with your cursor when you exit it does pick up where you left off
I believe you also have to close with the red end key, not the return key, right? I may be mistaken, but it's always worked that way for me.
Anyone else get links to open right away... with no menu opening up.. but when you go back to twitter the link menu is open to "open link"? Annoying...give me the menu like it should when i click the link. Actually it used to do that, then stopped.
Twitter fever is long gone? Maybe for you, but not the other millions of us on twitter!
No pt_BR files? :(
took them forever and the twitter fever is long gone. (idk)
Still many features lacking.
And its true that RIM is taking their own sweet time on this. How long has Twitter been out and how long does it take for them to get an app correct?
Pardon me, I'm still sticking to Ubertwitter.....
Wow, I've been waiting for this since beta release
The only thing that I like to see, is the feature to save photo's to my device. This is a great feature for wallpapers!
I never ever thought I'd want that feature... but I think it should be there.
I hope that is an option. I hate hitting the back button by accident or too many times coming back from a web link and then going back in to find myself at the latest and not where I stopped.
As long as it only allows features Twitter says they can (includgin the useless "new" retweeting) UberTwitter isn't going anywhere. That's to say nothing about the UI's complete waste of space. Why use up half the screen for stuff that can be hidden in the menus?
because then you end up with a seriously long options list, like UT's. The only thing I didn't like about UT (options list was supposed to be getting "fixed") is that evey time I wanted to write a new tweet, I had to go to the menu. With T4BB you get it right there... or from the Messages app. But UT offers mutliple accounts (I only have 1) and Twitlonger. That's really all. I hope T4BB adds these but I don't think they ever will. And T4BB (not too sure about UT) needs to add the "Accept/Decline follower requests" thing built in. Just like the FB app.
You can press 'c' in T4BB or 'u' in UT to bring up "new tweet". The next UT is supposed to allow you to hide the UT bar, thank goodness.
I don't use twitter so I don't really care, but RIM is certainly taking their sweet time with this...
still can't accept/decline follower requests?! i hate having to go into my browser to accept a follower request whenever i get a new follower request email notification.
Spot on.... I wonder why the Beta Testers never pointed that out
we did...
i like the new features, and they are also working the refresh/push structure this app is based around into the facebook app, so its alot faster (beta zone users know what im on about)
but c'mon RIM, i woke up today wanting appworld 2.0 as promised, still not here :(
nice... so much better then UT
As someone stated earlier....Still no support for multiple accounts. Is there any idea of when and if that is going to be available??...
Still no support for multiple accounts?
Not from the information we heard from RIM anyways. Looks like the most of it was just additional language support added this time around. All the other stuff was already there.
It looks like they started a new forum posting looking for input about the full Twitter app. I just posted a reply about the multiple acts and encourage everyone to let them know of our desire for it:
https://www.blackberry.com/beta/threads/view/946
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Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones Released to Market!!
Jul 6, 2010 09:57pm- last edited on Jul 7, 2010 09:33am
Hey everyone,
Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones has been released to market, and I’d love to hear what you have to say.
We are going to keep the discussion boards up and running for 2 weeks to gather your feedback on the Gold Candidate.
So please post here and let me know what you think!
Thanks again for all your fantastic feedback,
Jess
p.s. Keep your eye out for a new survey! :)
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