The TwitterPeek is... a Peek for Twitter?

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

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:15PM]

What?

[monkey with glasses Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:28PM]

Twits

[Spiraling Shape Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:08PM]

If I'm away from Twitter for more than 5 minutes I start getting seizures.

[jfalkingham Posted Oct 27th 2009 8:06PM]

wait, what?

Why show email in the device on the box. I call BS.

[ruby Posted Oct 27th 2009 8:08PM]

these peek tweet people are genius

[bsharitt Posted Oct 27th 2009 8:25PM]

I'm not sure about a Twitter only device, but adding Twitter to the current peak seems to be a no brainer.

[NikAmi Posted Oct 27th 2009 11:25PM]

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?

[Valicore Posted Oct 27th 2009 11:30PM]

I twatted this news all over the place once I got it.

[phandy Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:16PM]

this is too much people! i still don't see what the fuss is all about regarding twitter!!!!

[Poop Chef Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:32PM]

Your comment could have 49 more exclamation marks and still be within the Twitter limit!!!!

[Someguyfromcrowd Posted Oct 27th 2009 9:06PM]

Like this?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NikAmi Posted Oct 27th 2009 11:26PM]

@phandy: You should Twitter that.

[haveyouanywool Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:19PM]

My head hurts just thinking about how outrageous this is. Ow.

[haveyouanywool Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:25PM]

And I'm a Sicilian.

[N900 Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:28PM]

Your avatar and your first comment go great together.

+ million

[danbrunell Posted Oct 27th 2009 11:43PM]

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?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 8:04AM]

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

[Gay Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:20PM]

How stupid.

I hope whoever buys this falls down a manhole

[Poop Chef Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:26PM]

But who's manhole?

[W31RD0 Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:20PM]

"But who's manhole?"

Oh! Behave!

[monkey with glasses Posted Oct 27th 2009 8:24PM]

Not if someone tweets him location of manhole.

[Phrank Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:21AM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 8:04AM]

THEN WHO WAS MANHOLE?

[bondsbw Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:20PM]

* Goes to address bar
* Types "ebay.com", Enter
* Types "smart phone"
* Amazed at cheap devices that can do Twitter

Hmm... who knew...

[Marmite Turkey Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:21PM]

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?

[AndrewS Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:28PM]

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!

[michaspi Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:30PM]

>Dedicated Twitter device

No.

[eruh Posted Oct 27th 2009 10:24PM]

I think, at least here, we can come to that consesus.

[dallashigh Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:30PM]

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.

[Rockey04 Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:01PM]

That's where you are wrong...
Even teens hate Twitter!
Only celebrities use it.

[SirSpam Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:01PM]

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.

[Streetfights Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:02PM]

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.

[viper24 Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:44PM]

meh...

[navyasw02 Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:47PM]

FAIL

whoops wrong website.

[jedidove Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:53PM]

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.

[Uncontrol Posted Oct 27th 2009 6:56PM]

ahahahahaha this is one of the worst ideas i've ever heard

[FitFan Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:03PM]

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.

[kojo87 Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:08PM]

whats really scary is i can't tell if you are joking or not.

[lynx44 Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:04PM]

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.

[ch3burashka Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:05PM]

200 bucks for a single-point-of-usability product?

...what's the catch?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:33PM]

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.

[sracer Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:11PM]

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.

[osterzone Posted Oct 27th 2009 7:26PM]

It's hilarious how they said it was a great "stocking stufffer".

$200 for a stocking stuffer? Gimme a break.

[mehughes124 Posted Oct 27th 2009 8:10PM]

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.

[Omarijames Posted Oct 27th 2009 8:36PM]

grandma can stay on contact on twitter now.

[Dr Yusuf AlKindi Posted Oct 27th 2009 9:07PM]

Peek is doing Twitter? That is as bizarre as RIM creating a Blackberry wristwatch!

[artshark Posted Oct 27th 2009 9:08PM]

....really? REALLY?

[Sun3160 Posted Oct 27th 2009 9:44PM]

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.

[LMLYP Posted Oct 27th 2009 9:58PM]

"Lifetime service included ( or until these morons give up the fab)"
likely within a year.

[Austin520 Posted Oct 27th 2009 9:58PM]

Now if this was exclusively for using Facebook I might be interested...