ÜberTwitter vs TwitterBerry
I downloaded ÜberTwitter to my BlackBerry recently - it does so many things that TwitterBerry can't.
These are the ones I like in particular:
- On the ÜberTwitter icon, the umlaut accent marks change from green dots to red stars when new tweets come in, without you having to launch the app
- Tweets are appended with your (approx) location on a Google Map - don't worry, it's optional but can be useful for campaigning, events, or just showing off when you're on holiday ;-) When readers click through, they see something like the above screenshot
- Photos are embedded in tweets without having to click through to them - although you can, if you want to enlarge or go to the hosting site
- You can take photos and post them directly within tweets. No need to set up a separate account anywhere, ÜberTwitter takes care of it all by posting an ÜberPic complete with the number of views
- You can look at a user's timeline in isolation
- There's a retweet command (TwitterBerry had me doing a lot of copying and pasting)
- Reply all - useful for when you want to reply to a tweet containing several usernames without keying them all in
- Reply to DMs as DM, not @ (to avoid those awkward moments - what Auntie used to call "showing your petticoat." We've all done it...)
- Hashtag search
- Trending topic search
- Search friends and followers (and your friends' and followers' friends and followers... Huge time-sink alert!)
- Look for twitterers near you: "Everyone near you"
- It updates differently. Whereas TwitterBerry automatically updates to view the most recently posted tweets, so that you have to scroll down and read the rest in reverse-chron, ÜberTwitter saves your place at the last tweet you viewed, then you can scroll up and read in order.
- Shows the bio of a user when you click on one of their tweets.
- Favourites: you can mark them and view them, plus those of your friends (encore huge time-sink!)
- You can delete your tweets
- There is an Unfollow command
- You can follow conversation threads
- You can select "load more" to view even more tweets from a selected timeline
- It shows which twitter client other twitterers used to post their tweets (I take a nerdy interest in such things and know others who admit to the same...)
Automatic URL shortening is promised for the next release - excellent!
It would also be nice to have:
- Umlaut accent marks turning a different colour when "@" replies or DMs are received, or getting an asterisk like the BlackBerry Facebook icon does
- Ability to view sent DMs as well as received ones
- Ability to post short sound files in tweets
Although I really liked TwitterBerry, I've taken to ÜberTwitter straight away - it's helped me find so much more information, and easily too.
Have you tried it yet? Which features do you like/use a lot?
Download ÜberTwitter here.
