TWITTER FOR BLACKBERRY Review
Blackberry Bold 9000
(Using mostly on Wi-Fi)
Rating: **1/2 (Out of 5)

Update Twitter Status

For a change, this app brings Facebook style status update to BlackBerry. Refreshing, though just updates the status without refreshing the timeline.

Refresh Tweets

Auto + Manual refresh options, notifies on new tweets, can be a turn off when you aren’t replied or DMed to.

View Replies (example @extremejohn)

Major turn-off. Although does notify of replies, but doesn’t store them on device, downloading everytime the application is refreshed, consuming time and draining battery.

Read Direct Messages

Being a frequent twitter, most of my conversations are through Direct Messages. Flawed. As with mentions, doesn’t store DMs, instead refreshes and downloads every time, consuming time and draining battery.

View tweet

Biggest turn-off. The shortcut bar at the top + the status update box means there is space left for only one tweet when you start the app. Browsing down lags big time, very slow.

Reply

RIM got this right, displays in threaded conversation.

ReTweet

Retweets new twitter style without editing, another turn off, people usually like to add their comments to most ReTweets.

Direct Message

As with replying, RIM got this one also right. Replying to both Direct Message and Mentions with ‘R’ key (shortcode) works like a charm.

Make Favorite

You can select a specific tweet and make it a favorite for viewing at a later time, this is a handy feature for when someone tweets something important or interesting and you want to give it a detailed look at another time.

Video

You can embed videos right into your Twitter updates with Twitter for BB.

Trending Topics

Handy with a icon on the top bar.

Search

Search for key words just like Twitter on web.

Profile

One can easily view profiles and can follow/unfollow others easily.

NOTE: Username search kept returning internal server error.

Although all in all, its refreshing but due to the lagging (in twitter sense it’s like around 1,000s of tweets per second) Twitter for BlackBerry is a major disappointment. Also, ReTweeting new twitter style without editing also is a negative. Doesn’t add anything extra compared to popular applications like Uber Twitter or Social Scope.

Personally, I won’t change to this client from my existing client, i.e. Uber Twitter.