On the top menu - third icon (Messages), if you select that, you will be able to view direct mesages sent to you.
As of May 10th, 2011, twitter started notifications (via e-mail) when someone retweets or favorites one of your posts. I am not sure if that can be done in Twitter for BB, but you can always send the notification to an e-mail addy you have on your device. I use UberSocial myself, not too familiar with T4BB.
Cheers,
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there is really no body out there that is good with twitter for the bb and can answer this?
Why is it that not all the people that i follow appear on my timeline on my blackberry? i will only get the tweets from certain person that i follow on my timeline, not everyone!! i have to go on there personal profile page to get all their tweet