Peek's never been one to shy away from the
wacky and opportunistic marketing schemes but launching a whole product just for Twitter? That's courage, drive, and possibly a mental health issue. Yet here's the TwitterPeek -- what looks to be the same old
Peek you know, love, and probably haven't purchased, stripped of its email and SMS functionality and re-oriented towards telling the entire world too much about your body and what you're doing to it every waking moment of the day. Now, to be fair, we're getting a distinctly strange feeling of phoniness about this whole thing, but there's already an Amazon listing and a picture of the box has already surfaced on -- where else? -- Twitter, so this could
really be happening. Just think about that for a second. And then tweet about it, of course.
[Via
LiveDigitally]
Read - Amazon TwitterPeek listing
Read - Peter Ha's TwitPic of the box
posted Oct 27th 2009 6:13PM
What?
Twits
If I'm away from Twitter for more than 5 minutes I start getting seizures.
wait, what?
Why show email in the device on the box. I call BS.
these peek tweet people are genius
I'm not sure about a Twitter only device, but adding Twitter to the current peak seems to be a no brainer.
Sweet! Now I have a device for twittering which will go really well with the Peek I use for email and my cell phone which is just for calling. Now I just need them to design a Peek for bloggers and I will have the 4 not-cumbersome-at-all devices I need to keep connected. Who needs Android?
I twatted this news all over the place once I got it.
this is too much people! i still don't see what the fuss is all about regarding twitter!!!!
Your comment could have 49 more exclamation marks and still be within the Twitter limit!!!!
Like this?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@phandy: You should Twitter that.
My head hurts just thinking about how outrageous this is. Ow.
And I'm a Sicilian.
Your avatar and your first comment go great together.
+ million
Well this looks incredibly useless. Why not add this to the current Peak in order to make it more of a value rather than creating two pretty useless devices?
Because I don't want email, I want twitter! email can wait, twitter changes/updates too fast for me to keep track of it over long periods without access - i normally use my iDevice but it's battery barely lasts a day, presumably the Peek lasts longer.
Ah, but alas, i live in Australia. Land of the free, and home of the chinese.
--neg
How stupid.
I hope whoever buys this falls down a manhole
But who's manhole?
"But who's manhole?"
Oh! Behave!
Not if someone tweets him location of manhole.
I'm manhole, daniel, and for the record I do not allow anybody to "fall down" me no matter what ridiculous devices they purchase. It really wouldn't be possible, anyway.
THEN WHO WAS MANHOLE?
* Goes to address bar
* Types "ebay.com", Enter
* Types "smart phone"
* Amazed at cheap devices that can do Twitter
Hmm... who knew...
Okay, bye bye now.
24/7 Twitter access is not important enough to ANYONE to have a dedicated device. Surely they can't have done any research. Or am I really, really missing something here?
Gear of the year for WIRED magazine? I'm not surprised, they've done some poor calls before. One example would be one of their writers saying Cuba will have a tech boom, which is a joke, but go ahead, bet on it!
>Dedicated Twitter device
No.
I think, at least here, we can come to that consesus.
Twitter is only really popular among the young. The young are a pretty shitty market because they are fickle. Everyone left MySpace for Facebook. Facebook doesn't have too long until something else comes along that everyone switches to because "Facebook is SOOO two years ago". Twitter will suffer the same fate. If they priced this at $49 + a few bucks a month for service, I could see it being popular among teens. However, I don't think any parents (and let's be honest--that's who will be paying for these things) are going to drop $200 for "lifetime service" that their kid isn't going to be using two years from now, if even two months.
That's where you are wrong...
Even teens hate Twitter!
Only celebrities use it.
Really? Young people like twitter? Ha! What young people are you talking about? Young people would buy this? They (and I) would just use a cell phone.
I was under the impression Twitter was for older people....like those in their 30s. I'm 20 and friends with many tech-fluent people and I don't know anyone outside of my older sister (a music blogger) who uses it.
meh...
FAIL
whoops wrong website.
Twitter is completely idiotic and pointless. That makes this second-order completely idiotic and pointless.
I think this was a big step in the wrong direction for a company that was having trouble getting people to buy a device that could only read emails.
ahahahahaha this is one of the worst ideas i've ever heard
You have to admit that they've picked a pretty easy mark. CNN just reported that Ashton Kutcher just tweeted that he's going to buy one of these. Line up.
whats really scary is i can't tell if you are joking or not.
If they really want this to sell, they'd keep all the features of the standard Peek device. I can understand paying for everything, but just twitter? I just don't see that working out.
200 bucks for a single-point-of-usability product?
...what's the catch?
Its no more ridiculous than the 259 dollar Kindle.
If this does Twitter really well, I could see it being popular with people that don't want to have a smartphone and the data plan that comes with it.
This is an excellent idea. Too bad too many people are unable to separate the functionality of Twitter and how Twitter is being used (as is evident by the posts here).
I can see TwitterPeek being used for stock quotes, weather, news, etc. The only downside is the $200 pricetag for "lifetime". Not too bad if lifetime=5 years. But if lifetime=10 months.... ouch.
It's hilarious how they said it was a great "stocking stufffer".
$200 for a stocking stuffer? Gimme a break.
Does no one remember the "Wingman", Wired's April Fool's day joke?
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/video-exclusi-1/
This can't be real, it's patently absurd.
grandma can stay on contact on twitter now.
Peek is doing Twitter? That is as bizarre as RIM creating a Blackberry wristwatch!
....really? REALLY?
Why all the negativity in the comments? Do you ALL really follow the posting editor's cues that closely?
It's about the cost of just two months of a cellular data plan. Two months. Think about it. Two. Months.
It's not a bad deal for the Twits who can't afford a data plan.
"Lifetime service included ( or until these morons give up the fab)"
likely within a year.
Now if this was exclusively for using Facebook I might be interested...
What I really don't understand is the fact that why they couldn't have just released say a firmware upgrade so users with a peek can tweet too.
And what about just using your text messaging plan? Twitter was designed for that purpose, why not use it.
um..... people need to not waste their money on this crap.
and developers hw and sw need to put their minds to better projects.
so i can pay 200 bux for this, or i can pay up to 4 dollars and get an iphone app just as good if not better than this..........hmmmm...tough choice...
or you could pay nothing.. not only are there free twitter apps (honestly, who the hell pays for a twitter app?) but people seem to forget that the damn iphone comes with a web browser.
This just in, Twitter apparently has a "web interface". Details at 11.
You forget the monthly costs of your iPhone. With this device, you pay $200 once, and never ever a cent more.
I agree that it's rather pointless for anyone already owning a smartphone, but I can see this being popular with the kids.
what I want to know is if this could be of value just from a service standpoint. I'm sure someone will hack this and let you use twitter as an interface for who knows what, and paying a one time fee for anytime, anywhere access could be really awesome. Then again, I don't know what other kinds of services/data plans that could compare to this to tell if it is a real value. Not to mention that "lifetime" might be more like .. well, however long the Twitter fad has left.
Insider info tells me this is going to be a big hit. I wonder how many people would go for this over the original twitter.com though. I made a poll just now - it'd be interesting to see how the numbers play out @ http://www.dipoll.com/?p=614
Anyone knows if works as fine as in US. as for Canada too.