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BlackBerry Twitter App Finally Launches... in Beta

by Amar Toor on April 9, 2010 at 10:40 AM

It may be late to the party, but the official Twitter app has finally graced the BlackBerry with its presence. On Thursday evening, BlackBerry-maker RIM unveiled an open beta version of Twitter, specially designed for BlackBerry smartphones, and, according to CNET, the latest app is much more tricked out than the bare bones preview that leaked back in February.

While the preview version allowed users to upload photos and retweet, it lacked a lot of the juicy extras that third party apps like UberTwitter and Seesmic possessed. With this new app, though, BlackBerry users can now receive tweet notifications directly on their home screens and BlackBerry Message lists, and can curate their Twitter lists with relative ease. Although Twitter trends are noticeably absent from the beta version, users can still edit their profile information and picture directly from their smartphones, and are able to visually customize their homepage to a certain extent. Anyone can grab the app from the Test Center of the BlackBerry App World, and, if you're in the U.K. or North America, you can download it directly from the RIM BlackBerry Beta Zone. [From: CNET]

Tags: app, beta, BlackBerry, BlackberryAppWorld, BlackberryBetaZone, rim, socialnetworking, top, twitter, ubertwitter, web

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