Comments on: iOS Gets Preferential Treatment in Twitter Streams With “View App” Feature

By: Verda Eller

Verda Eller — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:18:00 +0000

If this is true, developers should pressure RIM to offer this feed, as
it would help BlackBerry developers get more exposure for their apps on
Twitter.

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By: Kyle McInnes

Kyle McInnes — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:27:00 +0000

Good point. We wrote about the need for RIM to have an affiliate program here:

http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/09/09/blackberry-needs-an-affiliate-program-but-one-thats-future-proof/

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By: Jon Webb

Jon Webb — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:26:00 +0000

Much of App World is already available via RSS. It should be trivial for RIM to add a feed suitable for Twitter. In fact, the mechanisms are already built in for the App World PlayBook client. They would just need to be documented.

By: Kyle McInnes

Kyle McInnes — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:12:00 +0000

I’m taking this information from a post we did in July of 2010.

300K new Twitter users per day, 8% of daily signups are coming via the new Twitter for BlackBerryapp. http://www.blackberrycool.com/2010/07/06/twitter-for-blackberry-coming-out-of-beta-with-additional-language-support/

But yes, I could be wrong on that point.

By: Adrockin

Adrockin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:44:00 +0000

”
If fact, BlackBerry is probably responsible for more Twitter user sign-ups than Apple”

Explain.

They are dwarfed in marketshare, and the prototypicla iOS user is mass market/early adopter.

BlackBerry users are still 25-40% corporate issue depending n what numbers you use.