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

[NeoXY Posted Oct 27th 2009 10:35PM]

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.

[Valicore Posted Oct 27th 2009 11:34PM]

And what about just using your text messaging plan? Twitter was designed for that purpose, why not use it.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:36AM]

um..... people need to not waste their money on this crap.
and developers hw and sw need to put their minds to better projects.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 2:10AM]

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...

[Ned Scott Posted Oct 28th 2009 9:07AM]

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.

[Frank A Posted Nov 3rd 2009 6:03AM]

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.

[Ned Scott Posted Oct 28th 2009 9:10AM]

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.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 3rd 2009 2:37AM]

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

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 8th 2009 11:25AM]

Anyone knows if works as fine as in US. as for Canada too.