The web 2.0 world is all about social media so why not take that type of media and move it to your phone?  One of the most widely used social media tools is a web application called Twitter.   It was made for SMS messaging (140 Characters) to let people know what you are doing.  In short you follow friends and other people follow you.  It’s pretty cool just go check out twitter.com if you don’t know what I am talking about.

Twitterberry is by far one of the best blackberry twitter application out.  With Twitterberry you can update your status, see public and friend’s timeline, get replies to your messages, and send and view direct messages.  The interface is very easy to use and is simple and clean.  The best feature in Twitterberry is that it doesn’t use SMS so there is no need for a text messaging plan.  All messages are sent and received using your data plan so it is recommended that you purchase an unlimited data plan from your carrier.

On the other hand there are some drawbacks to Twitterberry.  When viewing your friend’s timeline it can take a bit of time for their tweets to display, hardly a major drawback but it is one to think about.  This may also vary based on your carriers signal strength.  One feature that I would love is for the timeline to update every couple of minutes and then when ever a reply or direct message is received you can set a notification so that you don’t have to keep refreshing.  This wouldn’t be hard feature request since the application already runs in the background.  Also, I noticed that you are unable to follow new users from your phone.  You will either have to go to the m.twitter.com or will have to follow them when you get home.  Pretty much you can only get tweets from people that you have already subscribed to.

Overall this is the best twitter application out there for the blackberry.  If you use twitter then you need to go download this app.

This is part of a series “Ten days of Blackberry, Making your Phone Better“