I’m really trying to dig into twitter (@SimonSage, for those interested), but it’s hard to do in Canada, since we can’t get SMS alerts. Yeah, you can use data to update via the web, or even third-party apps like TwitterBerry, and Viigo is getting their feet wet there too, but any instance where you have to launch an app makes twitter more of a sideshow rather than the all-encompassing social networking vortex that our SMS-receiving brothers to the south can happily get sucked into.
Luckily, I just got wind of this new BlackBerry app, Yatca (Yet Another Twitter Client Application), that integrates directly with your native messages folder. Right now you can only set it to 5 minute update intervals, but surely with the BlackBerry push APIs becoming available, it won’t take long before we see some real-time twitter updates. Now, if only the icon could be a “T”… “Y” just seems so weird after using TwitterBerry. To find more info on Yatca, hit up their blog, or to dive right in, you can .
[via MiBlackBerry]