TwitterPeek… the world’s first dedicated Twitter device…

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As Twitter continues its rampant domination of the world, all sorts of folks are trying to figure out ways and means of making a spot (or bucketloads) of cash from it. Here’s the latest example, as published by MyBroadband.co.za:

A US company which makes mobile devices is offering a gadget solely dedicated to sending and receiving Twitter messages.

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.

More info available at the TwitterPeek’s website.

So it’s a Twitter-phone… but without the whole phone bit.

Okay then.