TwitterPuke

John Biggs
TechCrunch.com
Tuesday, November 3, 2009; 12:33 PM

I just got my hands on the the Twitter Peek aka the Tweek and I'm trying to figure out who, specifically, this is for.

First, consider this my review: this device is not very good if you're a Twitter "power user" like myself or anyone else with maybe 100+ followers and a few hundred folks you follow. To be clear, this isn't quite Peek's fault as they're clearly not interested in pleasing folks like you and me. They're looking for folks from a different aviary, presumably new Twitter users who haven't quite gotten hooked but are interested in the service enough to stick with it and have $199 burning a hole in their pockets absolutely right now and don't really follow very many people. If you know any of those people, please send them to Amazon to pick this up. For the rest of us, this thing is pretty rough.

I follow 2104 people and so this thing was buzzing and Tweeting all afternoon until I finally turned it off. Weird batches of tweets would come in, all from one person, for example, or weird messages like "Oh Hey, you're Tweeting so much! We're going to try to catch up" or something to that effect.

It's also really slow. You have to click twice to read a Tweet - once to bring up the menu and once to read the Tweet - and scrolling is really bad. And it makes a buzzing and a tweeting noise when tweets come in - which is all the time. And it's $99 with 6 months free or $199 for life. And it only does Twitter. No email. No texting.

I'm really selling this thing, aren't I?

[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110302919.html]

Update: Twitter Pronto offers email and texting. (But it is only offered in Charcoal Gray, and is just as dumb as the Classic.)