UberTwitter shots access to Blackberry

Millions of Twitter users, including top celebrities and sports stars, are without access to the micro-blogging site.

The application which allows BlackBerry to tweet from their phones, UberTwitter, was suspended last Friday, reports Washington Post.

Twitter officials blocked the popular UberTwitter app from being able to use its services due to violations to Twitter’s terms and conditions.

UberTwitter holds a 20 per cent share of all Tweets globally, especially with some of the most followed users on the Twitter-sphere, including celebrities and professional sports stars.

It is suspected violations include UberTwitter’s ability to lengthen the maximum 140 character limit. Both UberTwitter, which is available for the iPhone and the most popular Twitter app for BlackBerry phones, as well as Twidroyd for Android phones, are built by Pasadena-based UberMedia.

More than three million smart phone users access Twitter though UberMedia applications and Web-based services like UberTwitter, according to the company’s LinkedIn page.

It was also revealed that the big celebrities affected with the most Twitter followers include singer Rihanna, Lance Armstrong, Russell Simmons, Questo of The Roots, Donnie Wahlberg, former NFL player Warren Sapp, and NBA player Baron Davis.

In addition to violating its policies on limiting tweets to 140 characters, Twitter also argues UberMedia altered the content of Twitter users’ posts to generate money.

UberMedia, the parent company of UberTwitter and Twidroyd, has accumulated a large number of third-party Twitter clients, such as Tweetdeck, which rivals Twitter’s web and mobile clients according to a report by TopNews in New Zealand.

“UberMedia, which has been generating tones of money, was launched as TweetUp in April 2010. After some time the app changed itself to become PostUp, and following the deal with UberTwitter, it emerged as UberMedia,” the site noted.

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