Last night turned out to be a pretty exciting evening for the BlackBerry Twitter faithful (BBtwerps?), as Twitter, fresh off updating their iPhone client, also gave our beloved BlackBerries some love. The updated version is still a beta release, but has included multiple new features (many of them user-requested). A changelog can be found after the break.

Quote Tweets

• Ability to edit ReTweets

Auto Complete for @ usernames

• When you type an “@” followed by characters, the auto complete feature pops up a list of users as you type

View Geotagged Tweets

• View locations of geotagged tweets on BlackBerry Maps

Personal Info Guard

• Warning appears when sharing personal information (e.g. email address, PIN, phone number)

Hotkeys for Navigation

• New hotkey functionality has been added for lists, find people, etc.
• R reply, L reply all, Space page down, F retweet, C compose, D refresh, Alt+0 (home), alt+1 (mentions), alt+2 (lists), alt+3 (profile), alt+4 (inbox), alt+5 (find people), alt+6 (search), alt+7 (popular topics).

Go to User

• Ability to access any users profile from anywhere in the application using auto-complete functionality for followers

Additional photo viewing support

The new client was slated to begin rolling out last night and into this morning, so if you’ve not seen the update just yet, have no fear, it’s coming! System requirements include: a 64 MB BlackBerry, OS 4.5 and up, and a Twitter account (hax!). We haven’t had a chance to play around with the update for very long, but so far it seems to be a solid upgrade. Has anyone had a chance for some hands on time, and are the updates enough to pull you away from UberTwitter (or the BB Twitter client of your choice)?

via BGR