This is a review of the BlackBerry application UberTwitter. UberTwitter is in open beta testing. I’ve been using it for about a month and a half now and find that it is so far the best Twitter app for use with the BlackBerry. I had been using Tweetberry as my Twitter app but now have changed to using UberTwitter.
The features available in the current release of the product (Beta-5) are:
- TweetPhoto.com Support – TweetPhoto is now the default photo sharing service. UberTwitter has fully integrated TweetPhoto’s extensive feature list in such a way that it naturally flows with many of the features already available. Favoriting a tweet that includes a TweetPhoto will also favorite the photo on TweetPhoto, deleting a tweet with a TweetPhoto will also delete the TweetPhoto, replying to a tweet with a TweetPhoto will include that reply in the comment stream on TweetPhoto.com, and viewing a photo in UberTwitter will also register the view on TweetPhoto. You can view all of the comments on a TweetPhoto in one place in UberTwitter and, of course, UberTwitter has fully integrated their geolocation capabilities.
- Email forwarding – You can now forward a tweet directly to email
- Visual Icon Notification – For newer devices UberTwitter provides a visual homescreen icon which you can configure to display for either new tweets, new replies/mentions, new direct messages or any combination of the three.
- Enter to Send – You now have the option to enable pressing ENTER in the compose tweet screen to send the tweet.
- Modified the timeline retrieval logic to account for cases where tweets might not get retrieved if Twitter was experiencing intermittent tweet delivery delays.
- Exiting App SHIFT-x will now exit the application from any timeline screen
- Link Shortcut – SHIFT- l will now retrieve any embedded URL in a tweet
- A link to the original tweet on twitter.com is now included when you copy or email a tweet
- Advertisements are now not retrieved when the application is in the background, helping battery life.
- UberTwitter added a refresh on the Friends and Followers lists
- UberTwitter made the followers, friends, updates ‘active’ regions when viewing a tweet. You can click these to directly view those items instead of having to go through the menu.
- UberTwitter added a warning when adding a photo to a direct message as it may allow others to view the message through the photo service.
- Added reply all shortcut when viewing a tweet
- Added a workaround for a change Twitter made to the Everyone Near You capability.
There are two options available for getting UberTwitter:
- Purchase now
- Download Free Version
I downloaded the free version and find that all the features are available. The only drawback to the free version is there are ads every once in awhile. These are not tweeted ads but banner ads. They are not annoying and can be lived with.
If you own a Blackberry and are a Twitter user then go to http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php on your BlackBerry and download this great client.