BlackBerry users can now rejoice, for they can now become tweeps, with the official Twitter application. While the application has been around since April, it was in the open beta stage of testing, and now, it is available in full release mode, after incorporating a lot of features and fixes developed from the feedback received from the beta community over the last couple of months.
One of the first improvements over the beta application will be support for 7 more languages, namely:
- Portuguese EU
- Japanese
- Indonesian
- Russian
- Turkish
- Dutch
- Korean
Here is a rather comprehensive list of features offered by the full launch application:
- Go to User auto-complete functionality
- Push Notifications for Direct Messages
- Timeline Support
- Following and Followers
- Posting, Sending, Deleting , Replying and Retweeting Tweets
- User/Saved/Keyword/Proximity Search
- Tweet Photos/Links
- Trending Topics
- Seamless integration into core BlackBerry applications
- URL Shortening
- Auto-Update
- Quote Tweets (editing retweets)
- Auto Complete for @ usernames
- View Photos from Yfrog & Tweetphoto
- View Geotagged Tweets
- Personal Info Guard
- Hotkeys for Navigation
- Report as Spam
The application is available on BlackBerry App World in the social networking category.