Am sure this post will thrill your day, guess what? you can now ping with your computer lol...
After following this post you will be able to install BBM on your computer to ping with all your BBM contacts.

Basic Requirement to make this happen.
Download Android SDK, you can download HERE
After downloading it, extract the Android SDK bundle on your pc
Also Download BBM apk file HERE.

How Can I Set Up BBM For My computer
Go to the extracted adt-bundle folder.
Open SDK Manager.exe

In sdk-manager window select Tools - Manange avds
Create a new Android Virtual Device make sure the RAM is greater than 512 MB and then start the Virtual Device which you just created.

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