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First Impressions: Official Twitter for Blackberry App

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RIM's official Twitter app for BlackBerry devices has been rumored to be coming for the last few weeks. It was released into beta yesterday and I've been test-driving it for the last 24 hours.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it's not very good and here's why:

It's incredibly slow to load and each tab (timeline, @s, DM, etc.) has to be refreshed individually

There's no way of knowing which tweets are new and which one's are old

The screen size for 99 percent of the BlackBerry devices limits visibility of the latest tweets to one or two

You're unable to view profile pics (small gripe)

Does not support multiple accounts

Previews for Twitpic/yFrog/etc are not available

No video support

There doesn't appear to be a built-in URL shortener

No option to pick which photo service to use

And here's what I liked about it:

BB shortcuts are enabled

Photo uploading is painless

Perhaps TweetGenius and Seesmic have spoiled me rotten, but v1.0.0.228 of Twitter for BlackBerry is unimpressive and needs a bit of work before it's released into the wild. We have one beta code to giveaway. Who wants it?

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