Twitip

As many of you recently heard Twitter has just released it’s own client application for Blackberry platform and only days later – acquired Tweetie, one of the popular iPhone Twitter apps. What could it mean for an average Twitter user?

Days into launch, the official application for Blackberry called (what a shock!) “Twitter for BlackBerry”, is showing a steady growth in user base according to Twitter client usage measurement site Clientopedia.com scoring some solid 2% of total tweets in less than a week. Which means that Twitter crowd is adopting the new app quite good and it has a potential to squeeze some loyal user out of Ubertwitter – the current leader app for Blackberry platform and, in fact, in total usage among non-official Twitter clients.

Only around 45% of tweets are sent from the twitter.com web interface or via text messages and this number has been declining in the past months as the new 3rd party client software took on on weaknesses and faults of the official interface allowing users to use Twitter in a more custom and more efficient way. Now when the release of the Twitter Ad Platform is imminent, rumor has it that Twitter is out on a mission to get this rebel audience back to it’s own official apps to monetize on it.

For us regular Twitter users this could mean one thing: Twitter is killing the competition in the client apps market and when the competition is dead we will not get any new exciting features in Twitter clients as often as we do now.

On the other hand this whole thing could mean that Twitter is finally turning to it’s users and filling it’s own holes as Twitter’s Fred Wilson recently wrote. And soon we will see a whole range of new feature-rich Twitter applications for all major platforms both mobile and desktop.

One way or another, we’ll see the outcome very soon as the events have been developing quite fast since Wilson’s post. And I hope Twitter audience will benefit from this as in the end of the day, they – us, are why Twitter was invented in the first place.