Blackberry and iPhone get official with Twitter

Last week saw social media phenomenon, Twitter, take another leap forward in terms of smartphone saturation, with the release of Blackberry’s very own beta Twitter app. Twitter also announced its acquisition of Tweetie, a popular iPhone Twitter client.
Blackberry lovers have long been able to enjoy the tweet joys of Twitter on third party clients like Ubertwitter, but have been devoid of a native Twitter app until now.
RIM has been testing the application in private beta, but this week decided to open it up to the public. We are at a loss for 140 character worth of words to express our excitement.
Blackberry owners can gain instant access to their precious tweets thanks to RIM’s push service, with banal updates and direct messages pushed to and from their phones in real time, for always-on connectedness.
Meanwhile, Twitter’s acquisition of Tweetie was announced in a blog post by Twitter CEO Evan Williams himself, stating that the formerly paid application – costing $2.99 – would now be available for free on the iTunes AppStore and renamed Twitter for iPhone.
Williams also said Tweetie creator, Loren Brichter, would become a key member of Twitter’s mobile team and that he would be helping with the yet to be released official Twitter app for iPad.