I’m tired of alt, right shift, and deleting after my Blackberrry applications give me the death message of , “The application has attempted to open a connection to a location inside the firewall and outside the firewall which is not allowed by your IT policy.”


I’m in search of a Blackberry Twitter application that functions on a Blackberry Curve 83xx model. I’ve tried several.



TwitterBerry
This is the first application I tried. My first attempt at using it consisted primarily of me trying to get it to just connect. I received the “death screen” until I found the proper settings and even after I fixed that problem I was unable to upload pictures to twitpic from the application. Twitterberry was also slow and getting my friends list caused the application to freeze every time.

Orangatame Software – Twitterberry


Twibble
Twibble was the second Blackberry application I installed. The application was much easier to configure. I happily used it for two months until I updated to the latest version on September 30th. It’s features were suddenly reduced and I was informed if I liked twibble I could “register” by buying the application for EUR 4.90 from the twibble store. I can’t buy the application at the moment and I cannot stand the little notifications informing me I can “activate” my account.



Twibble Mobile – The home of twibble


ÜberTwitter
I tried ÜberTwitter in despiration for a Twitter application. After I installed it OTA it gave me the “death screen” and didn’t stop. I attempted to restart but even after that the devious application remained. I did a battery pull and tried again. This time I didn’t try to verify my account until I had configured the settings. Success! Except… I was a little concerned over the GPS locator and cell tower triangulation features. I don’t want people on Twitter to know my location. Concerned, I searched the internet to see if I could completely shut the feature off. Even though it seemed that my location was private I removed the application. A combination of safety issues and crazy religious advertisements were my motivating factors.

ÜberTwitter Download


Yatca Not Applicable
This application never worked on my Blackberry. No “death screen”. It actually failed to install. However, this wasn’t at any fault of the application it was my own fault for not realizing Yatca is for 4.6+ OS.

Yatca

Final Conclusion

Twibble is the most promising Twitter application I have run across for Blackberry Curve 83xx. I will likely end up paying EUR 4.90 for it but for the time being I am free of Twitter applications.