Laura's Life in PR

I downloaded the official Twitter application for Blackberry today (at the expert recommendation from colleague Donald Martelli) after using Seesmic for a couple months and UberTwitter before that. This might be personal preference, but I think the app blows other “unofficial” apps out of the water. As an iPhone user of over a year before I bought my Bold, I was very disappointed moving over from my beautiful Tweetie app to the practically archaic apps on the Blackberry.

Here’s my quick rundown of the new Twitter app:

Intuitive

The app includes a handy, easy to use reference bar at the top of the screen that offers a button or a click to all of my Twitter needs. Other applications, such as Seesmic or UberTwitter, I had to navigate through the menu button to get to my @replies and DM’s. The Twitter app also offers “Popular Topics” and “Find People” and these are two options I never found on other apps, and if I did they weren’t easy to use.

Fast

I no longer have to stare at the “updating” text on Seesmic because this app refreshes on it’s own and at a much higher speed than other apps. When I’m scrolling down through recent tweets, the last thing I want to do is wait to see more. Worst than that, on UberTwitter I would often get error messages when I tried to refresh and it seemed to slow my whole Blackberry down as well.

Not too bad to look at

This application takes the cake in terms of aesthetics, hands down. Since it came from the source itself, it clearly mimics the graphically elegant Twitter homepage and actually has some design to it instead of just a list of tweets (some apps are with or without avatars.. hardly a plus on their part).

All in all, definitely download this application even if you’re happy with your current one. That’s the same boat I was in but now I don’t think I’ll use anything else on my Blackberry.