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Twitter for BlackBerry out of beta and heading into full version

RIM seems to be leaving the Beta version of Twitter for BlackBerry and will release a full version of that Twitter clients to v1.0.0.45. Twitter for BlackBerry will also feature the ability to access any user’s profile from anywhere in the application using auto-complete functionality for followers. The application also will have the support of several language such as: France, Italy, Spain, Germany, EU and Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Indonesian and much more.

RIM says that the application of beta testers has helped many additional features of the application form during the test period. They "offer exceptional feedback and clearly establish the evolution of this application,"

Some of the features added in the beta program include the ability to edit, retweets, preview images, geodata function, autocompletion for user name and reporting spam. Full launch of Twitter application for BlackBerry was start last night; we can find them on BlackBerry App World under social network category.

[via mashable]

Twitterrific 3.0 hits the App Store

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Seesmic for iPhone finally out on the App Store

The big eyed raccoon has finally made it to the iPhone. Seesmic today has released Seesmic for iPhone, its multi-service social networking client which hooks up to Facebook, Twitter and Ping.FM. The long awaited app is available for free from the App Store and weighs in at a meager 1.6 MB.

Seesmic for iPhone presents itself as a panel-based application which lets you assign multiple Twitter accounts, searches, lists, trending topics, Facebook account, and other services on individual panels. Similar to the iPhone's own home screen, Seesmic lets you add panel after panel and will add pages as it sees fit. The panels can be rearranged and removed by holding down on one panel just like managing iPhone apps. On each timeline, the panels are represented on the top left with an identifying icon for easy switching between the views.

This app features Evernote integration to save tweets, notes, and links to the online storage service. If you have Evernote installed, it will immediately send the selected tweet to that app. Unfortunately this means quitting Seesmic. There doesn't seem to be support for Instapaper, however.

If you have multiple accounts setup on Seesmic you can send your update simultaneously even across different services. Official and unofficial retweets are supported and there's an option to choose between using RT and via for the old retweet method from the app's settings which is located in the Settings app.

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Twitter for iPhone

The highly anticipated Twitter for iPhone is finally live on the App Store taking the place previously occupied by the award-winning Tweetie for iPhone.

Existing Tweetie 2 users will see the new app as an update, this means it will replace Tweetie 2 but with a new, blue icon. Those who still have Tweetie 1 will continue to be able to use it since Tweetie 1 and Tweetie 2 are separate apps.

With Twitter for iPhone, Loren Brichter and his team have maintained much of what made Tweetie such a terrific app to use and built on it to completely avoid the need to ever go to the Twitter website when you have your iPhone with you.

The app allows anyone to use Twitter even if they have no interest in creating a Twitter account. Users will be able to check out the trending topics, read tweets by popular users, see what people are saying nearby, all without having to create an account. Should you be interested in joining the twittering masses, you can create an account right from the app.

The app resembles Tweetie 2 so much, existing users should have only a few adjustments to get used to it as a few things have been reworked from Tweetie 2, as expected from an update.

The official retweet function has moved from the "more" button to having its own place underneath each tweet. The function area has been slightly reworked and a few action buttons reorganized.

The map area for geotagged tweets have been enlarged to fit the width of the screen and geotagged tweets will also show the actual location name if the area is under the supported list. At the moment only a few cities in the US has it.

Username search has been lumped together under Search, hashtags can be filtered out of the trending list (OHYEAH!), and there's no more RT or /via or quotes tweets.

Just on that last point, there's a Quote Tweet button under the "more" option but it actually puts the tweet as an actual quote, "like this."

Search has been tweaked to reflect the most retweeted tweet and includes the number of retweets on each tweet. Note that this counts only for official retweets.

The app is also fast. Loading tweets is much faster compared to Tweetie especially on slow EDGE connections which is great since networks can't seem to maintain stable 3G connections. Saving photos is really fast, and more importantly it seems that caching tweets work much better as it managed to save tweet positions on multiple accounts after a relaunch.

Speaking of accounts, it's probably the bigest gripe because existing users have to reenter their account details. For someone who runs multiple accounts, this can be tedious. It was probably done in purpose to show everyone that there's something markedly different about Twitter for iPhone. Also, it hasn't yet use OAuth which means the app will definitely see an update before the end of June when Twitter shuts down non-OAuth access. What this means is no more entering username and passwords to sign in to Twitter outside of their oen website.

Accessing Settings and Accounts have been moved to the Search tab on the right rather than directly to the left of the timeline. As far as user interface conventions go, this change is really jarring but perhaps only those pedantic enough about it will be annoyed by it.

Overall, Twitter for iPhone is clearly the best Twitter app on the App Store for the majority of Twitter users. Twitter has definitely made the right move in purchasing Atebits and bringing Loren Brichter on board. Best thing about the app as far as consumers are concerned, it's free.

Twitter for BlackBerry update, to be released soon

Twitter for BlackBerry app, the official one, is about to get update. CrackBerry reported that the updated version will be available today or tomorrow. Based on feedback gathered in Beta Zone, the next version of Twitter for BlackBerry will have:

Twitter for iPhone about to go live?

Yesterday, Atebits' Tweetie for iPhone suddenly disappeared from the App Store which can only mean one thing, Twitter for iPhone is about to go live. A few weeks ago Atebits released n update to Tweetie which includes a notice about the change.

When pulling down the timeline to refresh its content, you'd see a slot machine interface that pops up and displays advertising saying Tweetie for iPhone will soon became Twitter for iPhone. of course, this was by no means a surprise, as Twitter a few weeks ago had bought Atebits and announced that Loren Brichter, the company's principal, will be joining them to develop mobile apps for Twitter. They also announced that Tweetie for iPhone will be renamed and become their official client for iPhone. an iPad version is also in the works.

As Twitter for iPhone is free, it will also be a free update to existing Tweetie owners.

Android App Review: Twitter for Android

Following their official app for BlackBerry and also the upcoming Twitter for iPhone, Twitter finally launched their official app for Android platform.

Instead buying one of the already established apps on Android platform, they decided to create their own app from scratch and apparently Twitter has been working very close with the Android team from Google to make this app.

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Indonesia's Greater Jakarta police unveils Nokia app for traffic control information

Following the official launch of its Twitter account, Greater Jakarta Police Office's Traffic Management Control (TMC) also provides Nokia app which provisions similar Jakarta traffic information in your own phone. Developed by Elasitas, the app has already listed in Ovi Store. Nokia users may download TMC app at http://store.ovi.com/content/32105.

I made small research to figure out which models are supported. Unfortunately, there are only few series in the list, most of them are new line ups, like 6210 Navigator, N96, E71 and newer QWERTY models, N97 and newer touchscreen models. It lefts most of older phones and forced their owners to get back to Twitter service.

Something I notice in Ovi Store, the app screenshot is poorly presented as there's only 192x192 pixels picture available like this one above. How many information can we obtain only looking from that?

Nokia Messaging for social networking is available for download

Nokia Messaging Applications for Social Networks has finally made for non-touch screen Nokia device, so that these applications are now available for Nokia E72, E71 and E63. Yes, for now the Nokia Messaging application is only available for the Nokia E series.

If you have a Nokia device and want to try Nokia Messaging application for Social Networks, please to download Social Networks Nokia Messaging Beta Page on BetaLabs.

Here is a video demo application:

[via Nokia BetaLabs]