BlackBerry Twitter fanatics can start getting excited now as the official Twitter for BlackBerry application has finally grown out of beta. We’re proud to see that the app has graduated into full, official status and with it comes a whole slew of new features and improvements. It’s about time after so many beta updates. Letting your friends know about the mundane details of your life has never been easier or more fun! To start, there are a number of new languages that are now supported: Portuguese EU, Japanese, Indonesian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch and Korean.
Thanks to the feedback of beta users, Twitter listened up, took the beta tester community’s advice and brought some of the features those users were clamoring for. You’ll now be able to “access any user’s profile from anywhere in the application using auto-complete functionality for followers,” according to RIM Media Relations.
Other features include:
- 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
In case you missed out on the updates in May, and part of what’s also included in the official client, here they are:
- Quote Tweets (editing retweets)
- Auto Complete for @ usernames
- View Photos from Yfrog & Tweetphoto
- View Geotagged Tweets
- ersonal Info Guard
- Hotkeys for Navigation
- Report as Spam
Tweeting about your weekend loafing at home, the weird turkey sandwich you had at lunch or maybe those strange, random comments you have about sports games that no one will ever understand unless they’re watching the same game will be so much easier now.
Starting tonight, the full launch will start rolling out and continue throughout tomorrow morning. If you want to pick it up, all you have to do is head on over to BlackBerry App World under the social networking category and you should be all set to go!