This review of TwitterBerry was submitted by @cjharley from From My Point of View. If you’re a TwitterBerry user – please add your own user review in comments below.
Do you love Twitter? Of course you do! That’s why you’re here. And if you love Twitter and your BlackBerry as much as I do then you have got to get TwitterBerry. This application allows you to have access to your Twitter while on the go.
Installing the application is simple and only takes minutes. Once you’ve entered your username and password TwitterBerry pulls in all of your latest updates, including the ones from your friends. It looks just like your Twitter at home. Your avatar and your friends’ avatar come up on your BlackBerry screen which makes it easy to identify your friends.
The home screen is similar to what you are used to on your home computer. It shows the remaining number of characters and with a click of the trackball your update is sent to all your friends. Replying and sending direct messages to friends is just a trackball click away. No more worries of having to type out their username. All you need to do is highlight the friend, hit the menu key then choose reply or direct message, and TwitterBerry takes you directly to the home screen with your friends’ username typed for you.
One of the newest features is the integration of TwitPic. Now you can send pictures you have taken with your BlackBerry to your fellow twitters. Go to your media file, select the picture you want to send, choose ‘Send with TwitterBerry’ and viola! When you go back to the home screen it is there waiting for you like an attachment.
Another neat feature is being able to choose which ’splash page’ TwitterBerry will display when you open the application. In the last version it defaulted to the home screen and I always found myself wanting to see what my friends were doing or what the twittering community was doing. So I was pleased to see that I could configure TwitterBerry to jump right to my Friends Timeline. It takes a few seconds to pull in any updates and then if I want to update or reply I click the back button and I’m ready to broadcast.
I love TwitterBerry. It is one of my favorite applications on my BlackBerry. It cures boredom when you’re standing in line at the store, standing in line for concert tickets, at a boring party or hanging out by the pool. This is definitely a must have application if you carry a Berry. Navigate to http://orangatame.com/ota/twitterberry from your BlackBerry and follow the installation instructions.
Are you a user of TwitterBerry? If so – we’d love to hear your review in comments below. What do you like about TwitterBerry? What features do you hope they add next? What other alternatives do you recommend?
Oh, I didn’t know that TwitterBerry is up to 0.8, so I had to download it! I think the twitpic intragration is excellent; however, I think that is where the usefulness of TwitterBerry stops. Unfortunately, I just can’t get away from the mobile version of twitter when using my blackberry. It is just too easy to use!
I haven’t been able to justify the switch to a program to use twitter, especially with switching from twitter to ping.fm. It is just easier done in the Opera Mini (which I highly recommend for all blackberry users!).
Also, it seems that there is only 1 line for each tweet. This might work for the bigger screen blackberries (Curve, Bold) but it doesn’t work for the Pearl…
This looks like a killer app for black bery users, I am addicted to twitter …i can now tweet from wherever i go
Ahh if only I had a blackberry. How about a twitter app review for iTouch / iPhone
I have been using twitterberry for about 3 months now and it rocks. So easy to tweet and view tweets and with the recent upgrade I get to see a bunch more tweets that I was missing with the old version. The only problem I have is that you cannot click on an @ person in someone elses tweet which doesnt make sense. Other than that if you have a blackberry and use twitter you need to have twitterberry for sure
I started using twitterberry recently and really like it. Very easy to use.
Twitterberry has increased my tweeting threefold at least. I wasn’t aware of the TwitPic option. It would also be nice if the TwitScoop Buzzing Right Now window could be an added choice. TweetDeck is my choice when online and TwitterBerry is hands down the choice when umbilicaled to my bb.
I have been using TwitterBerry 0.6 for two months. It is a great way to access Twitter from your BlackBerry. I like the TwitPic integration and the expanded cache for the Friends Timeline which allows you to view up to 200 tweets.
Am I the only person annoyed that I can’t read all 140 characters on my friends timeline? Word-wrap is not optional.
peace|dewde
I look great i love backberry but i don’t have the service in my cellphone, Including i have a 8100 but whit out Internet, nice life mains?
I have TwitterBerry on my BB still but don’t use ever anymore since I ran across TinyTwitter – browser based and a click of the button lets me reply, tweet or update timeline – much friendlier interface!
I assume I need the latest version to send photos. Something more for my to-do list.
You’re right! Twitterberry is ace, it kept me entertained at a boring ‘night out’ it’s my ‘morning paper’ on the tube… I’ve just upgraded so I can use twitpic (so far, so bad) I’ll try and try again!… Follow me on twitter @gtvone or catch me at Digital Photography School!! Twitnight folks!
@joshself
I’ve been using Twitterberry on my Curve 8330 for about 3 months now. I would say 50% of my tweets actually come from Twitterberry. Its THAT essential. Of course its not as “all encompassing” as Twhirl or others but its probably my favorite ap on my Berry.
@nerdindian
I use twitterberry 0.8 with twitpic integration, but the pics never seem to reach twitpic ! No error message, it just stays there and you have to escape after 8~10 minutes. Tried it on my Blackberry 8800 as well as Blackberry Bold 9000.
Anyone can upload pics successfully using twitterberry ?
@illuminato
I love the TwitterBerry overall, but there are a few things I’d like to see corrected in their next update. I would like to see my friends complete messages word wrapped, not abbreviated. I’d also like to be able to use it in landscape, not just portrait, on the Storm.
@smartsdesign
cool app. just downloaded twitterberry on my curve and looking forward to chatting
@hostelmana
I’m using Twitterberry and can’t get Twitpic to work either. It just hangs and never uploads the pic.
@rodeoannouncer
I can’t get the Twitpic update from Twitterberry to work on my 8830….hangs…sux
@ruthiegledhill
Well I just cannot get Twitterberry to work with TwitPic on my Bold and couldn’t on my earlier Curve either. It is v annoying to see pics from Stephen Fry coming up all the time via Tweetie on the iPhone while TwitPic just does not seem to work at all. I’ve tried all the different configs from automatic to TCP and nothing works.
@hostelmana
I’m using a Bold also, and Twitpic doesn’t work. My workaround was to create a blog on Tumblr.com and email photos from my phone the the Tumblr blog. Then Tumblr sends the photos to Twitter. The text of the email becomes the tweet.
Example:
http://twitter.com/hostelmana/status/1252406022
It’s not perfect, but it works for now until Twitterberry fixes the issue…
@NerdIndian
I now send my twitpics via email to an id like nerdindian.xxxx@twitpic.com and it works with a slight delay – not bad since I CC the same email to flickr too – 2 uploads in one go !
@robborover
I have switched to TinyTwitter on Bold as that does have a working TwitPic solution
@michelesliger
I prefer the TwitterBerry interface to others I’ve seen, and enjoy using it. One question: Is there a way to limit who shows up in my Friends Timeline? TweetDeck has a nice filter option and a groups option; Twitter offers the Twitter text command “OFF username” to stop updates to your phone. What can TwitterBerry do in this regard?
@SmartMouthBroad
I love twitterberry. My only problem was that I didn’t know how to twitpic and you’ve just solved that problem with this post. Thanks. Happy tweeting.
@rainyz
I haven’t been able to upload a pic yet from my blackberry using twitterberry. I finally gave up. Bummer. Don’t get me wrong, for twittering it works great.
@robborover
Twitpic supports email receipt so you can send pics direct from blackberry via email. Less integrated than direct from an app but works well.
If you login to twitpic and check setrtings you will see a unique email addy to send pics t
@RNelsonS
I have had nothing but problems with Twitterberry. I am costantly getting memory errors. I end up having to uninstall it and reinstall it. AFter that, it works for 2 times, then crashes again.
i cant use twitpic….it wont send my pics…says network request failed!
@Mama Bear
How come everytime I try to use twitterberry it tells me invalid username or password iam getting frusted about this I just want to twitter
@robborover
Invalid username/password is not a usual twitterberry issue – is it a corporate blackberry? Have you checked connection type?
@robborover
Re Twitpic: use the email functions of your blackberry to email to twitpic – works very well.
i dont have a data plan to use email for twitpic. i use wifi
To address a previous comment: the invalid username/password actually *is* a fairly common issue that Orangatame address in the troubleshooting portion of their website.
I absolutely despised Twitter Mobile from the first moment I used it, and was and have been intensely grateful for the existence of TwitterBerry as the premiere Twitter client for BlackBerry OS. Having said that, I have some thoughts… As much as I like it, and as much of an improvement as it is over Twitter Mobile, it has a few major flaws.
I personally don’t use TwitPic, so I didn’t even know that was a known issue. On my previous Bold, TwitterBerry 0.8 gave me a bit of trouble with uncaught exception and invalid argument error messages causing it to crash now and then, but it’s been running fine on my current Bold, and I can chalk some of that up to the hardware issue that killed that ‘Berry.
More importantly, I have a major problem with it duplicating my outgoing tweets in its own timelines (that is, they don’t duplicate in Twitter itself). I’m assuming this occurs because I’m sending one right as it checks for new tweets.
Some of the other mobile Twitter clients I’ve seen allow single-key shortcuts to manually check for new tweets or to switch to a specific view, but TwitterBerry doesn’t contain shortcuts for either of these. On a similar note, toggling views requires using the menu, which is a good deal more awkward than, say, simply rolling the trackball left and right.
Everyone seems really hung up on this whole “entire tweets not fitting on one line” thing. Frankly, I think this is the biggest non-issue TwitterBerry has under its hood. Are you people honestly too lazy to just click on the tweets in question? Or do you just not realize that you can do that? Jeez. They have actually “solved” this “problem” in the 0.9 beta, and I strongly dislike it. I vastly prefer the clean layout of 0.8.
TwitterBerry’s biggest and most egregious omission, however, is the tweet reply tracking we all take for granted in computer-/web-based versions of Twitter. I don’t believe I even need to discuss why this is an important oversight; if you use Twitter, odds are you’ve clicked on the “in reply to” link at some point.
Don’t get me wrong: I use TwitterBerry, and I still think it’s the best BlackBerry-based Twitter client out there. But it still is very much a work in progress, and there’s still a lot Orangatame can do to improve it.
@robborover
Geoff – most of what you describe is available on TinyTwitter – works very well on the Bold.
@kg5ie
I cannot get the app to work on my Blackberry. I have no problem using Twitter via the web on a computer, however on the Blackberry I get a “wrong username or password” when attempting to update, however in the config I get a successful connection test.
Any ideas?
@abutterflyloves
I love the TwitterBerry application. It updates my Facebook, My Twitter. All from my main screen. You can also send Direct Messages to people that you can’t on Twitter.. glitch or not, I love it!
@poison_unspoken
I use to love twitterberry. Until they came out with the new version. I am Visually impaired. The old time line that I could just click on the tweet and it go to the font I wanted was great. They changed that option and put it all one font so now my timeline freezes every 3 seconds. The new reply window sucks that also freezes. Now I can’t find the old version anywhere to change it back. I’ve tried multiple twitter apps. Everyone I could find for my Blackberry curve. The old version of twitterberry was the best one I had. Now it is gone. I want it back. Does anyone know where I can get the old version before the 0.9 s came out. Please..
@geniole91
i got the blackberry curve 8900
and when i try and send a pic to twitterberry, and it says ” unable to open connection: tunnel failed” and it wont let me send pics! lol and twitpic never works, i dunno what to do
HELP
@armennazarian
Hey, when i upload a picture with twitterberry it does that fine using twitpic, however when it has finished uploading the picture it wants to upload the tweet with the message and a url to the picture, just like normal, however a network request fail pops up, but a network request fail doesnt pop up when i only tweet(with no picture) Help
@NICUHLA
So I just got twitterberry & sent 2 pics to it, checked my balance & i have like £3 left!! does it cost to send to twitterberry?!
@kimmietran
can anyone tell me if i need to have a internet data plan in order to use twitterberry? i have a blackberry curve, but i haven’t uploaded the twitterberry app yet because i wasn’t sure if i would be able to use it without a data plan.
@ruthiegledhill
I’ve given up with Twitterberry. I really recommend UberTwitter. It is superior in every way and is perfectly compatible with a Blackberry Bold, at least.