Guest Post: ÜberTwitter for BlackBerry

July 2nd, 2009 by Ben Smith

We haven’t really talked Blackberry much around these parts since we launched, so mobile guru, man of the people and all-round mobile guru Terence Eden has graciously stepped in to dig us out of that hole.

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It’s been a long time since my last post about Twitter on the BlackBerry.

Back then I concluded that Dabr wasn’t quite up to snuff – how wrong I was! In the last year it has come on leaps and bounds. I’ve even contributed a few suggestions and lines of code.

Without a doubt, Dabr is the best general mobile web client for Twitter.

As my main device is a BlackBerry, I wanted something that integrated a little better. The Facebook app hooks in with email, calendar and even adds profile pictures to the address book. Is there anything similar for Twitter?

Enter ÜberTwitter - the finest client for the BlackBerry that I’ve used. Here are the reasons why…

Top posting

Top Posting and Reply Highlighting

Every web client I’ve found imposes the wrong reading order! Take a look:

Alice: Oh, I see!

Bob: Because it makes it hard to follow a conversation.

Alice: Why?

Bob: No.

Alice: Is top posting a good idea?

Previously, whenever I loaded up twitter, I was faced with the newest tweets first. This means coming in at the wrong end of the conversation. Although hard to show in screenshots, ÜberTwitter overcomes this by keeping the cursor on your last read tweet and loading the others above it. So you scroll up to read in the correct order!

Feature Request: I’d rather scroll down – or have the option of reversing the reading order. English speakers read top to bottom.

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