BBM Rollout To Restart [UPDATED x2]

If you’ve been waiting patiently for BBM on Android and iOS after the rollout was shut down due to a rogue version of the Android app, this Tweet from the BBM account will pique your interest:

http://twitter.com/BBM/status/392327167029153792

The link in the Tweet leads to a blog entry that says among other things, this:

This is the news you’ve been waiting for! I am thrilled to tell you that we are about to officially resume our rollout of BBM for Android and iPhone customers around the globe!* In the next few hours, people will start seeing BBM in Google Play, the App Store and in select Samsung App Stores – where it will be free to download.

You can expect a whole lot of people to be downloading BBM if what BlackBerry says is accurate. Based from the amount of noise that was generated from the shutdown of the original rollout, I have no doubt that it is accurate. This should be very interesting.

UPDATE: Apparently 5 million iOS and Android users have downloaded BBM. This Tweet indicates they’re moving on to the next 5 million:

https://twitter.com/BBM/status/392474565059686400

UPDATE #2: Now they’re up to 10 million:

https://twitter.com/BBM/status/392735651394641920

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