I have tried TwitterBerry (twice), Twibble, and a few other Twitter management apps for my Blackberry in the last 6 months, and had universally bad experiences with all of them on the Curve (old school). Memory leaks, app fails, etc. – none of them ready for primetime. Each time I had to hit Reset and find a new, different app with a higher likelihood of “playing nice” with my device, I went back to the well: Google organic search results like this one. Not only did I never find any good alternatives in the first page of results except for one paid app called TweetGenius which seems to be getting good early reviews but which costs actual moneys (gasp! <choke>), but I started to think there just weren’t any other decent free ones out there. Then yesterday I used Bing with the same query. This time, numerous different blog and forum alternatives popped up in the organic results – along with the usual suspects, several free ones I hadn’t heard of before including Yatca and UberTwitter (admittedly one click away within one of the blog posts on the first page of results, but hey, I’ll take one click away over nowhere-to-be-indexed). Thanks Bing for a more diverse set of results, and for helping me solve a problem with one query, a quick scan, and a couple clicks, that el Goog couldn’t with 4 or 5. [File under: #bingcasestudy]
p.s. I installed and am now using UberTwitter, which rules – the best free app out there for the 8300 series Curve by far, IMHO: fast, clean, all the core Twitter account and messaging management functionality you’d expect and need, and some added bonus coolness like full Twitter user profiles auto-loaded when you open a specific tweet in your timeline. Highly recommended (so far :).
