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Q&A on TwitterPeek

Wow! Our humble little TwitterPeek has been really generating a lot of interest, since launching Tuesday. Lots of folks wanted more info so we thought we’d share it here. A common question has been: Who is the TwitterPeek for?

The short answer: TwitterPeek is for the millions of Twitter users who don’t own an expensive smartphone, but still want to experience the fun of Twitter on-the-go.

For the longer answer we thought we’d let leading technology analyst Michael Gartenberg share his thoughts. Here’s what he had to say in a recent Yahoo News article.

“This is clearly not a device for the Twitterati who are debating which is the best Twitter client to use on the iPhone and may have five or six of them,” said Michael Gartenberg, a vice president at Interpret. “This is designed for a user that has embraced Twitter but isn’t interested in the cost or complexity of a smartphone.”

While consumers feel beaten over the head with “there’s an app for that” commercials, in reality only around 25 percent of the mobile-device market is using smartphones. Not surprising when you look at the astronomical costs of owning a smartphone. BillShrink recently published an article on smartphone cost comparison with this handy chart:

Celebrities like Oprah and Ashton have millions of followers that surely fit into this category of non-smartphone users. They’re everyday people and Twitter users who probably are reading and posting from the web mostly.

That leaves millions of consumers using feature phones who have no desire to give them up and may not be interested in e-mail or web access.

“Feature-phone users might not want the other higher-order smartphone functions but have embraced Twitter,” said Gartenberg.

TwitterPeek offers these millions of consumers a fun and easy tool that lets them keep up with Twitter on-the-go.

To find out more visit: www.TwitterPeek.com

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3 Comments

1. I have a couple questions about the TwitterPeek that I haven’t seen answered anywhere yet.

   1. Is it possible to mark tweets as favorites on the TwitterPeek?
   2. Is it possible to set it to vibrate OR beep? That is, can you change the way you’re notified, including, can you only be beeped for @ messages?

   Comment by Debra Hamel — November 6, 2009 @ 3:17 pm

2. Well, I guess here’s another question while I’m here. If there were future changes to the TwitterPeek interface, for example, if you changed it so that complete tweets were visible on the home screen rather than truncated tweets, would current TwitterPeeks be able to be updated with a software/firmware update?

   Comment by Debra Hamel — November 6, 2009 @ 3:51 pm

3. [...] We’ve been getting loads of interesting questions about our TwitterPeek, so we’re using our blog to share our answers with everyone. (Read our first Q&A about who TwitterPeek is for HERE). [...]

   Pingback by Peek Speaks: Simply connected. Your personal email anywhere, anytime. — November 11, 2009 @ 12:12 pm

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