We talk about different twitter apps a lot here and it’s mainly because every single twitter client app seems to fall short in one regard or the other. We wait patiently for an in-house twitter app made directly from RIM (BlackBerry). The people (person?) at YATCA are in the same boat. The only difference is they made their own twitter client app to use until BlackBerry makes one.

Yatca is one of my favorite twitter client apps simple because it’s simple. One of the cooler features is that it can integrate into the message box. New tweets come in like they’re new mail. It has a notification icon whenever you get a new one too. It’s simple so it has a small footprint; use it to tweet, reply, read other tweets and see people that reply to you.. that’s it.

Because it does integrate into your message box, I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone who follows a lot of people because your inbox will be overflowed with tweets.

This new update seems to run a little smoother.

You can download the version for you at http://yatca.wordpress.com.

Here’s another scratch on my rose-colored BlackBerry glasses.

I woke up this morning, getting two tweets from BlackBerry. One said “Happy Holidays” and the other said they have a free song for me to download. The song is “all you need is love” which I’m assuming is the song on the new BlackBerry commercials that are just God-awful.

This commercial seems to be geared toward one demographic… and it’s not me. How about a commercial with a whole bunch of celebrities standing next to each other handing each other the phone.. or maybe one of just the phone and someone is talking and pushing buttons on it… I miss the original BlackBerry Storm commercials with John Krasinski.

So… I try to open the free song tweet, and I get this….

That’s right, a broken link. Thanks again, BlackBerry. For saying you have something for me and making me feel foolish for believing it. For another gift, how about you hire a new PR department; your current one isn’t working for you.

Hey, I’m available to blog.

Update

They fixed the link… which I knew they would eventually do.. It only took them 4 hours to do it. And yes, it’s the song you hear in the commercials. I’m listening to it right now on my Storm. Go here to download it. There’s just something about this song I don’t like…

Did you get the message?

Around 12 today, my BlackBerry Storm made a weird alien-like ring and there in my message box was a red message from the mothership, BlackBerry Network Administrator, telling us to phone home… well to download the new BBM .57.

I’m assuming the message was sent to everyone that has bbm .55 or .56 (the versions that messed up BlackBerry smartphones for the Americas yesterday). The .50′s series of BBM fixes the slow or sometimes impossible transfer of pictures between BBM’s.

If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can find it at http://mobile.blackberry.com/ using your BlackBerry Browser.

I got to play around with the newest unfinished version of tweeteev today. Tweeteev is another yet another twitter client application (this, btw, is the name of another twitter client called YATCA). When tweeteev came about, the makers stated …

…the interface, features and experience that Tweeteev provides will totally change the way you use Twitter on your mobile phone. Stay tuned, coming soon on a mobile device near you.

So I’ve been waiting for a while now.

The first version that was leaked earlier this year was buggier than a South American rain forest but it did show some promise.

This new version that came out is even better. Yah, it’s slower then a snail on a salty desert, but I can definitely see it being my twitter client of choice once they speed up the app (if they can speed up the app). Much easier said than done.

You can try it out by going here.

Last night marked the third time and it pains me to say this that RIM (Research in Motion – BlackBerry) has failed me in the last week. This last bbm/internet outage lasted almost the whole night. It was long enough for my girlfriend to kind of start freaking out about it and my sister to call me to be befuddled about it. Apparently the issue stemmed from a bad update to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).

RIM’s apology

Last night a service interruption occurred that affected BlackBerry customers in the Americas and it appears that the issue stemmed from a flaw in two recently released versions of BlackBerry Messenger (versions 5.0.0.55 and 5.0.0.56) that caused an unanticipated database issue within the BlackBerry infrastructure. RIM apologizes to its customers for any inconvenience and has taken corrective action to restore service.

A new version of BlackBerry Messenger (version 5.0.0.57) is available and we particularly encourage anyone who downloaded or upgraded BlackBerry Messenger since December 14th to upgrade to this latest version which resolves an issue that exists in the two previous versions (5.0.0.55 and 5.0.0.56). To download the most current version of BlackBerry Messenger software, please visit www.blackberry.com/blackberrymessenger and follow the on-screen instructions…

I think it’s funny that he link RIM provided for the fix does work when using a BlackBerry Browser and wasn’t working on my computer until just a few moments ago. I’m also a little perturbed that I pay 30 bucks a month for a service that has stopped working three times this month. Last night realized what it feels like to be on AT&T… (please don’t sue me)

All seems to back to normal in the BlackBerry world now, though, if patterns foretell the future, we should be expecting another outage in a few days…

If you’re still running BBM 5.0.0.55 or 56, download the newest non-server crashing version at http://mobile.blackberry.com using your BlackBerry browser.

Last night reminds me how utterly dependent we as a society I’m getting on technologies. But that’s enough of that.