Comments on: TwitterBerry [User Review]

By: Ruth Gledhill

Ruth Gledhill — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:44:29 +0000

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.

By: kim

kim — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:55:33 +0000

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.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:18:39 +0000

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?!

By: Armen

Armen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:21:04 +0000

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

By: josh g

josh g — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:13:57 +0000

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

By: Minga

Minga — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:52:26 +0000

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..

By: Kimmy

Kimmy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:21:23 +0000

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!

By: bill

bill — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:50:46 +0000

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?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:03:09 +0000

Geoff – most of what you describe is available on TinyTwitter – works very well on the Bold.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:19:56 +0000

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.