It seems, then, that this was another case of putting an outside human in charge of your tweets and ending up with Twitter all over your face. However, I pleaded nicely and a company spokesperson told me: "I can confirm the post was done by an outside agency." Fake groom caught after using iPhone translation app to talk to bride.Fox News expert's mistake leads to hilarious Twitter rebuttal.Designer's improvement on phone reminders: Um, a band.The company told me it was "reluctant to elaborate." One can, perhaps, understand this reluctance. Or, perhaps, as, someone at BlackBerry was, um, hacked.
I wondered, you see, whether someone at the company secretly uses an iPhone for personal affairs and simply used the wrong phone. So, after a rueful chuckle, I determined to find out how this had happened. Success has been hard to come by, but the phones do have a BlackBerryesque charm. In recent times, the company has tried to release phones that are true to its brand. Unfortunately, the tweet, as the Verge spotted, came from an iPhone. There was BlackBerry tweeting: "Keep up with the conversation on Twitter." It helpfully added a link so that you could download Twitter for BlackBerry. Yesterday, though, there was a particularly poignant offering. The history of phone companies tweeting from the wrong phone - or the celebrities they pay handsomely doing so - is becoming long. You can follow us on Twitter or join our Facebook fanpage to keep yourself updated on all the latest from Microsoft, Google and Apple.Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.īlackBerry is trying to be itself and release phones that are very BlackBerry. Make sure you check out our iPhone Apps Gallery and iPad Apps Gallery to explore more apps for your iPhone and iPad. Within the app, there is a button where users can submit their ideas, and the feedback will be used to prioritize development efforts on some of the remaining, popular features of the BlackBerry version that have yet to be added to the iPhone beta version.įor more information, please visit Download UberTwitter for iPhone With ŰberView, ŰberTwitter has once again demonstrated their leadership in the Twitter client space, this time on the iPhone platform."Īdditionally, ŰberTwitter will continue to encourage its users to share their suggestions for new features as it did with its original Blackberry offering. "Plixi serves millions of images every month to ŰberTwitter users, and our business is all about creating easier and more intuitive ways for customers to share and view images. "One of the most important aspects of the new ŰberTwitter for iPhone is ŰberView," said Sean Callihan, CEO of Plixi. As more tweets become vehicle for sharing articles, photos and videos, this feature will become ever more indispensable." "For instance, ŰberView will enhance the way users consume content. "Given the iPhone’s growing dominance among smartphone users, we wanted to extend our product offering to its users while making sure our app offered features that would complement the platform’s unique functionality," said Paul McDonald, CEO of ŰberTwitter.
The version 1.0 full production release will be available by mid-December, and will incorporate many of the suggestions made by the beta users, as well as a number of other features. Over 10,000 people have already downloaded the current beta release and are providing great feedback. Either by tapping the tweet in portrait mode or turning the phone to landscape mode, users will be able to view and use content from any embedded link (e.g., webpage, photo or video) instantly without leaving the app or opening a new page within it. In addition to traditional Twitter client features – such as composing and sending tweets, retweeting, direct messaging and embedded link shortening – ŰberTwitter for iPhone offers an important new feature called ŰberView that makes reading tweets faster and easier. Today, more than nine million users have downloaded ŰberTwitter, and they send approximately 10 million tweets a day with the app.
Until now, ŰberTwitter has been exclusive to RIM’s BlackBerry devices, where it was one of the first Twitter client apps to be available for the platform and set the standard for features and functionality.
ŰberTwitter, the world’s most widely used Twitter app for sending and reading tweets, announced today that a beta version of ŰberTwitter for iPhone is now available as a free download from the Apple App Store.
ŰBERTWITTER, WORLD’S #1 TWITTER APPLICATION, BEGINS OPEN BETA OF IPHONE APP, INCLUDING ŰBERVIEW OF EMBEDDED LINKS FOR EASIER TWEET READING Full official press release is as follows: