Twitter comes preloaded on every BlackBerry 10 device, a tenet of the operating system that, along with Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare, was praised as forward-thinking when the Z10 arrived in January.
But, as early software builds tend to, Twitter for BlackBerry 10 was slow, ugly and missing many features Android and iOS users took for granted. While there have been multiple updates to the app since then, today marks the point where T4BB10 (as it’s playfully referred to) reaches relative feature parity with the other platforms.
Version 10.2 offers multiple account support, something that community managers who rely on their BlackBerry 10 devices decried as the biggest missing feature when BB10 was released. Switching accounts is easy as heading into the Settings and choosing a main account — one that will be integrated into the OS and Hub — or a secondary account.
The app also now allows users to see, send and reply to Direct Messages within the app. This was previously only possible in the Hub itself, an annoyance that has graciously been corrected. Twitter has also updated smaller aspects of the app, like a new Refresh behaviour that maintains a user’s place in the feed.
Discover, and its cousin Search, have been added and spruced up respectively, bringing trending topics, hashtags and popular tweets in a single pane.
The Twitter UI is also wider and a bit sharper, and images can be saved directly to memory if desired.
This is a big, important update for Twitter users on BlackBerry 10, and we’re happy to see the company taking the platform seriously.
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