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Monday, April 13, 2009
What The World Needs Now...Is A Decent Twitter Client For The BlackBerry
Apr 13 2009 8:07PM | Permalink |Comments (2) |
Unemployed (or bored) software developers, listen up...have I got an untapped market opportunity for you!
As I mentioned twice last week:
I'm now supplementing my other online editorial outlets with occasional 'tweets' from three primary accounts:
- BDipert
- BrianzBrain, and
- HowWeSeeCE
And others on staff are closely following in my footsteps (welcome!).
I never know when information and inspiration will strike, so I've got redundant Twitter clients (which I prefer to entering text via Twitter's web browser interface) installed on multiple platforms. My Macs are running the free, advertising-supported version of Iconfactory's Twitterific. My Windows Mobile Smartphone's got open-source pocketwit on it, and initial reviews of Twikini are positive. Tweetie from atebits is resident on my iPod touch. I haven't yet researched Windows programs, but I've no doubt they exist in abundance (recommendations, anyone?).
But for the life of me, I can't seem to find an adequate Twitter client for my Blackberry 8830, a situation which I find particularly mind-boggling considering the QWERTY keyboards built into all RIM phones:
- TwitterBerry is the best of the bunch, judging from my testing so far. But it doesn't support multiple Twitter accounts.
- Twibble fails on launch with a verification error message.
- TinyTwitter fails on update with a cryptic 'network exception: failed to transmit' error message, and
- SocialScope is still in private 'alpha' release
If any of you CrackBerry users out there are also Twitter addicts and have stumbled across a program I haven't found yet, please post your recommendations in the comments. And if anyone's interested in developing a robust Twitter client for the Blackberry and is looking for a feature set definer and/or tester, you know where to find me...
Reader Comments
at 4/15/2009 1:56:27 PM, DeviceGuy said:
Over here now...just a n00b question. I''m guessing you can use those mobile clients to tweet to your multiple tweet streams? I''d love to be able to use a second Twitter account myself for my music-world alter ego. I use Twhirl when on the PC and could tweet to specific accounts with that, but I tweet quite a bit when mobile via basic SMS. I don''t have a smartphone and don''t think I can tweet via SMS to more than one account.
at 4/15/2009 2:05:37 PM, Brian Dipert said:
Dear DeviceGuy, correct, and they use cellular data services (ie EDGE, EV-DO, HSDPA UMTS, etc) instead of eating into an SMS budget (that I actually don't have on either my personal or work cellular accounts, therefore also explaining my interest in this alternative). But I can't seem to find a multi-account-supportive client for my BlackBerry, therefore this post.
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