Usually any discussion about app stores brings to mind the two heavyweights of Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG). Both have dominated the market with just the shear volume of different applications that they make available to their mobile users.

Aside from the big two, there are others that have their own app stores, including Research In Motion (RIM) and it looks like the Waterloo, Ontario based company wants to garner their fair share of the headlines with their announcement that the BlackBerry App World has now passed 10,000 mobile applications.

The news came by way of the company’s Twitter account through which they tweeted “BlackBerry #AppWorld is 10,000 apps strong and growing – what apps do you love?”.

Yes, 10,000 is still a very small number of apps when you see that the iPhone app store has over 250,000 different products and the Google Android market has about 100,000 apps. However, RIM has reached a milestone and considering that many Blackberry users are employees of a large company whose code of conduct prohibits the downloading of third party applications, it is tweet worthy.

Recently RIM has been trying to expand the user base of their BlackBerry devices from corporate customers to the general public and in order to successfully do so, they will need a strong App World with lots of software choices. This process is moving forward and the RIM Blackberry already has apps for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Via: GadgetVenue, IntoMobile