What The World Needs Now...Is A Decent Twitter Client For The BlackBerry
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…
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