The BlackBerry Pearl 3G is a one stop shop for staying in touch with friends at a festival and spreading gossip as it breaks, but with the official Twitter app onboard, your reach extends well beyond the campsite. It’s easy to find out what all the performers are saying backstage or on the bus there, and let your followers know what’s happening on the fly too. Our BlackBerry Pearl 3G guide shows you how to make the most of all the features on board for slinging your 140 character droplets of wisdom online, whether you’re in the crowd at The Big Chill, or The Cambridge Folk Festival.
Lists aplenty
You can ditch your regular Twitter feed while you’re at a festival: let’s face it, you don’t want to know about your colleague’s thoughts on Dr Who while you’re watching a headline act. Set up a list from the top menu bar of the BlackBerry Twitter app, and you can add only the people you want to read tweets from while you’re away. Add the handles of anyone you’re going with, sure, but don’t forget to add all those Twitter obsessed musicians who are appearing too, as you never know what gem they might drop to their followers with a smartphone to hand – the location of an impromptu performance, perhaps. Creating a list on the BlackBerry Pearl 3G is simple: just enter a list name, then start adding people. When you’re done, recommend it to your friends so they can see who’s on it too, and spread the word to everyone on BlackBerry Messenger.
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Top topics for festivals
You can find out what’s going on in the world at large when you’re at a festival using Twitter on the BlackBerry Pearl 3G too. Give the Popular Topics icon on the top right a quick prod, and you can instantly see what people are talking about most at any time, by chronological order or popularity, so if a major event outside the fence occurs, you won’t be left out of the loop. You can even tweet about any trending hashtag simply by pressing the menu button too. For the gossip on the inside meanwhile, just use the Search Twitter option and look up keywords like the artist you’re watching to see what everyone else around you makes of them. Whoever’s headlining the Reading or Leeds Festival stage of your choosing, you’ll find out the latest gossip in a jiffy.
Easy peasy picture sharing
The BlackBerry Pearl 3G is armed with a swift 3.2 megapixel camera that’ll reel off shots in an instant, but with the Twitter app installed, you can put that speedy 3G connection to good use too, and share photos of your antics with your followers in seconds. Just take a snap of whoever’s just taken to the Womad stage, then click the envelope icon: choose to send to Twitter and you can fling a shortlink to all your friends at the festival or stuck at home, complete with a caption. Alternatively, if you’re in the Twitter app just prod the Camera icon to choose any pics already in your folder. It couldn’t be quicker, and any banter you get back from your followers will drop straight into your inbox, so you’ll catch it as soon as it’s sent.
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