RIM’s official Twitter client has been lingering around the internet for around three months now as a public beta, but only just recently lost its “beta” tag. If you were holding back on downloading this app because of fears of instability, fear not. Since this release of the app theoretically is the golden version of the software, it means that some bugs and other glitches have been flattened out into a solid release and that you can get on with your high priority business (or casual business) without any fears of the app failing on you and exploding your phone into millions of pieces. But since the beta didn’t do that to you, we’re going to go ahead and assume this version won’t either. If you have BlackBerry OS 4.5 or later, you are now free to download the app through your BlackBerry web browser or the BlackBerry App World.
Twitter recently fell for a ridiculous bug that allowed anyone to make someone else follow them just by entering “accept [username]” as their tweet. As word quickly spread like wildfire on Sunday and early Monday, chaos resulted as a majority of Twitters tried the command. As a way to temporary fix the situation, Twitter disabled the entire following system, making everyone’s followers and followed to 0. Now, Twitter says everything should be back to normal, sans the results of what happened during that time. “We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to “force” other users to follow them. We’re now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place,” the company said. The glitch was reportedly fixed at 11am Pacific yesterday morning .
Google launched a social networking tool today, taking on the same market as Twitter, called Buzz. Google Buzz can be described social networking service also integrating your other social network updates into its own wing, built right into Gmail and the entire Google ecosystem.
Buzz has four notable features, including:
A friend list created automatically based on the people you email the most often from Gmail.
Other social networks and media sharing sites, such as Flickr, Twitter, and Picasa are combined with file sharing for status updates.
Private or public sharing (equivalent of Twitter and email, respectively).
A recommended buzz, similar to when you see tweets retweeted by your followers on Twitter.
One thing not left out were cellphones. Buzz is also designed to work with the iPhone and Android browsers, so you can “buzz on the go”. Buzz can also change your stream to places around you like restaurants, businesses, among others using your current locations, which you can manually update (with location-aware disabled iPhones) or find automatically.
Google Buzz will slowly roll out to Gmail users, so don’t expect to use it right away.
RIM’s official Twitter client has been lingering around the internet for around three months now as a public beta, but only just recently lost its “beta” tag. If you were holding back on downloading this app because of fears of instability, fear not. Since this release of the app theoretically is the golden version of the software, it means that some bugs and other glitches have been flattened out into a solid release and that you can get on with your high priority business (or casual business) without any fears of the app failing on you and exploding your phone into millions of pieces. But since the beta didn’t do that to you, we’re going to go ahead and assume this version won’t either. If you have BlackBerry OS 4.5 or later, you are now free to download the app through your BlackBerry web browser or the BlackBerry App World.
Twitter recently fell for a 
