Twitter-only gadget launched
The “TwitterPeek”, made by New York-based Peek, costs $100 with six months of service or $200 for a lifetime service plan.
Peek, which also makes mobile devices strictly for e-mail or text messaging, called the TwitterPeek “the world’s first dedicated Twitter mobile device”.
“Because TwitterPeek is designed for Twitter, it provides a tweeting experience superior to any website or smartphone application,” it said.
The device resembles a Blackberry smartphone with a full-colour screen for viewing messages and a keyboard for typing them.
Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with 140-character-or-less messages known as “tweets”, has grown rapidly in popularity since it was launched in August 2006 and claims to have topped 50 million users.
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