Tweetcaster BlackBerry Twitter Client – Only Costs One Tweet…

by Ronen Halevy on Jul 21st, 2009 at 5:48 am EST

Tweetcaster is an interesting new app from Handmark. It is the only app I know of that you have to tweet about to download it. Never heard of such a app model but I guess it makes sense. There are a ton of free and relatively cheap alternatives like UberTwitter but Tweetcaster has an solid feature set and the especially welcome support for MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS but you do have to toggle between them.

URL shortening
Picture sharing
@replies & retweets
GPS locator
Toggle multiple accounts
Trending topics

You can download the app free at this link but you need to provide your twitter credentials for Handmark to send out your tweet. I am not sure how comfortable I feel about handing them over but if they were malicious I guess they could just program it into their app to steal your credentials…

You can find a demo video of the app in action at this link.

The Tweet you need to send out to get the app free is:

Just got #TweetCaster by Handmark FREE for my BlackBerry in exchange for this tweet. Get yours: http://tinyurl.com/TweetCaster

I just cannot believe how we have over 10 Twitter clients for BlackBerry yet only have 2 RSS clients…

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 and is filed under Free Software, News, Utilities.
Tags: Free, Handmark, TweetCaster, Twitter

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15 Comments to “Tweetcaster BlackBerry Twitter Client – Only Costs One Tweet…”

Posted by: Zelrick
July 21, 2009 at 6:53 am EST

Sounds like a great app, however I tried twice and got 500 internal server errors from Handmarks server. So I now have 2 of their promo tweets in my @Zelrick timeline and no app.

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Posted by: Conspiracy Theory
July 21, 2009 at 7:20 am EST

After you send the tweet, it doesn’t do anything. It just give you the 500/Bad Gateway error. I think it’s a scam.

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Posted by: terry
July 21, 2009 at 8:36 am EST

I made the tweet and still have no idea how to get that Tweetcaster application???

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Posted by: dilemma
July 21, 2009 at 8:48 am EST

Try here:
http://www.handmark.com/downloads/129978/430/twitterforblackberry.jad

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Posted by: terry
July 21, 2009 at 9:05 am EST

Link downloads but will not work

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Posted by: matt
July 21, 2009 at 9:21 am EST

What rss clients are there… I hate on Viigo (memory leak suck fest)…what’s #2?

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Posted by: ay
July 21, 2009 at 9:34 am EST

you have to go from your mobile browser.

very good app.

only problem is that you have to manually refresh it.

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- Posted by: terry
  July 21, 2009 at 9:53 am EST
  
  I did and it downloads but gets an error and I have to delete it
  
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Posted by: webchetan
July 21, 2009 at 1:18 pm EST

This app (TweetCaster) sucks! big time. The interface is horrible. I like, YATCA, SocialScope and Ubertwitter. All these 3 Twitter clients are awesome! and to top it all 3 are free too!

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Posted by: terry
July 21, 2009 at 2:11 pm EST

Thanx for the refferals

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Posted by: Logan
July 21, 2009 at 3:12 pm EST

What RSS clients are you including in the 2? I’ve never been a huge fan of Viigo, as it’s a huge bundle if I only want to use it for RSS feeds that I choose, not all the sports and other stuff they include. I use Newsgator Go! because I can sync feeds and read items between my RSS readers (using FeedDemon on my PC and their Mac version on my Macbook). Is there another that I’m not aware of? If so, does it sync read items?

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- Posted by: Ronen Halevy
  July 21, 2009 at 3:42 pm EST
  
  There is freerange but that is made by the same company as Feeddeamon and they just got bought out by handmark. Nothing new coming on that front yet
  
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  - Posted by: Logan
    July 21, 2009 at 5:26 pm EST
    
    Great, thanks for the update. I really wish google would come out with some way to sync reads between another reader and their browser based reader. I’d much prefer to use Google Reader to share my feeds with friends, but I can’t justify clicking read twice on every single item (once on my berry and once when I open a browser on my desktop).
    
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Posted by: oracle
July 23, 2009 at 2:59 pm EST

i have the same problem too..cant connect as good as uber twitter…and the worst thing…i promoted to all my friends about it…argggghhhhh going back to uber twitter

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