Justin Trudeau tweets about hating his BlackBerry, isn’t alone

Justin Trudeau apparently doesn't like his BlackBerry.

"Ok, now I officially hate this BlackBerry," tweeted the Liberal MP earlier this week. "Stupid ineffective touch screen mislaunching tweets. Plus I can't multitask, apparently."

Luckily for the high-profile politician, Research In Motion (RIM) caught his tweet and replied, "Sorry to hear you are having issues. Can you please follow us as we would like to help! Thanks. BBS."

Soon after that a woman named Amy, RIM's director of public relations and events, tweeted "Sorry to hear you're having BlackBerry trouble. I'm in PR at RIM. Can I help?"

We're not exactly sure what happened after that, but, apparently, the issue got resolved with Amy writing she had heard back from Trudeau and he loves his BlackBerry again.

Trudeau himself affirmed that he may not hate his device as much as he wrote initially.
"Ok, to be clear, I do not hate BlackBerry, or RIM," Trudeau tweeted. "I just get frustrated at the touchscreen on my 9900. But the rest of the phone is great."

Even if Trudeau gets frustrated with it sometimes, he isn't alone.

"If I don't follow back its because my phone is broke once again, I give up," tweets Dylan Hudson. "I officially hate BlackBerry." A quick search for BlackBerry on Twitter reveals many similar exclamations.

Many of the people with issues are reaching out to RIM through their @BlackBerryHelp Twitter handle, the same handle that first responded to Trudeau. When we looked at the page, it was receiving dozens of questions an hour. There seemed to be few responses from @BlackBerryHelp, although they may be responding in other ways.

While Amy responded to Trudeau, looking back at her tweets from the past month, she doesn't jump in to help any of the other people with questions.

Trudeau's comment doesn't come at a good time for RIM. Earlier this year the company unveiled a widely-panned Bold Team of cartoon superheroes to promote a phone line. At the end of last year, two drunken RIM executives disrupted travel plans for more than 300 people by getting kicked off a flight heading to China. The pair was ordered to pay almost $36,000 each to Air Canada for forcing the flight to make an unscheduled stop in Vancouver to drop them off. The company also lost co-chief executives Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis.

At the same time, competitor Apple's stock hit a record high of $600 and the company will be releasing the new iPad on Friday.

The outspoken Trudeau has a history of not holding back his words. He recently called Environment Minister Peter Kent a "piece of s***" in Parliament and he suggested that under certain circumstances he would support Quebec separating.

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