For those of us who Twitter allot using their BlackBerry (can’t you tell which smartphones a brotha favors?) trying to shorten a url and post a new tweet, or retweet is challenging. Let me show how I USE to do it:

1. type in the url address I want to shorten on my desktop Internet explorer
2. copy the url
3. go to tinyurl and shorten the url
4. copy the shortened url
5. send myself an email with the new url pasted in my subject
6. open up the email on my blackberry
7. copy the new url
8. open the ubertwitter app
9. paste the new url in my message, and send tweet

Well thanks to the folks over at the Crackberry Forums, I have found (and dowloaded) the life-saving little app called Bit.lify. This FREE (a brotha loves free) BlackBerry application enables you to shorten AND copy (or email, or text) any url from your phone, using your phone’s browser – no need to mess with trying to go to an url shortener website on your computer (or phone) copy, shorten, copy again, and paste again.

Here are my new steps:
1. type in the url address on my phone’s browser
2. click the BB menu button, and select “bit.lify” in the menu
3. select copy from the list of choices
4. open ubertwitter app
5. paste the new url in my message, and send tweet

Just about half of the steps are gone! This is a MUST-HAVE app for die hard BlackBerry/Twitter users!

For more information and to download Bit.lify, go to ubiquitoussystems.com