{"id":10317,"date":"2009-11-04T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-04T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T10:42:00","slug":"twitter-only-gadget-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/10317-twitter-only-gadget-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter-only gadget launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;TwitterPeek&#8221;, made by New York-based Peek, costs $100 with six months of service or $200 for a lifetime service plan.<\/p>\n<p>Peek, which also makes mobile devices strictly for e-mail or text messaging, called the TwitterPeek &#8220;the world&#8217;s first dedicated Twitter mobile device&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because TwitterPeek is designed for Twitter, it provides a tweeting experience superior to any website or smartphone application,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The device resembles a Blackberry smartphone with a full-colour screen for viewing messages and a keyboard for typing them.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with 140-character-or-less messages known as &#8220;tweets&#8221;, has grown rapidly in popularity since it was launched in August 2006 and claims to have topped 50 million users.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=200709\"><strong>Twitter-only gadget<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US company which makes mobile devices is offering a gadget solely dedicated to sending and receiving Twitter messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}