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First up considering its a beta damn its stable.

I’ve not been able to find any problems with it yet even attempting to break it.  If it wasn’t for the invite only status I’d have thought this was a full blown 1.0 release.

There are however a few short comings in the client little things that could be improved or features added that aren’t currently added.

Firstly the buttons along the top its navigation effectively is lovely IF you’re using a BB with some kind of scroll wheel on the storm/storm2 they’re horribly small and if – like me – you have large fingers almost impossible to press accurately.

My suggestion for fixing this is left right motion switching.  Just like in BBM running your finger left or right across the screen cycles through the various chats. Can we not have the same for the twitter client?

Last I heard twitter were adding in Location support for tweets and users (http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/location-location-location.html).  Now I don’t know if this came to pass but if it did then its certainly not supported by the BB client.

I don’t really have a solution to this however Ubertwitter resolves it in an interesting way.  They update the Location field with coordinates and then if you want to look at all users within say a 5 mile radius of yourself then you can do.  Its an interesting feature I’d like to see implemented – especially amusing on drunken nights out to find others making a fool of themselves – perhaps it could also be expanded to define some kind of BB user flag in there so you can perhaps say “show me all BB users within 5miles of me” leading perhaps to impromptu meets of fellow geeks/nerds and many gallons of ale….. Just a thought.

Multiple acount support is none-existant.

I have 2 accounts one for work and one for personal usage I’d like to be able to update them both while I’m out and about without having to log out log in and resync to each account manually.  Perhaps register multiple accounts and have a simple overview screen showing account name, number of new tweets, date of last tweet, number of @’s or DM’s.

Then simply clicking on that accounts icon takes you into what is currently the main page of the app.

Aside from those few things though RIM have done a superb job of the client and I think once its in final release I’ll be switching to using it full time instead of UT.