Even Musk wades in on this forgotten relic.
There are a lot of questions about the future of Twitter now that Elon Musk has finally bought the company and made himself CEO. But away from the fears of relaxed norms, paywalls and other charges, some are fondly recalling a time when one plucky tech company thought Twitter was important enough to warrant its own mobile device.
The TwitterPeek was an always-connected Twitter device with cellular service. The $99 device came with 6 months of service. Users could renew the service for $8 per month or pay $199 for lifetime access. pic.twitter.com/KoGjjkLb5zFor anyone wondering what all the fuss is about with Musk's takeover of Twitter, it's worth recalling that the social media platform of not many words was once considered so important that it received its own mobile hardware.
about it."This looks like a gag product," one person tweeted."Don't give ideas to Elon Musk," one person wrote."I have a feeling Twitter consumer hardware will be making a comeback soon," someone added. But TwitterPeek's greatest flaw was that it didn't even do its one job very well. It was slow, and the screen displayed only the first three words of each tweet, so you had to click to open each message. You couldn't open links and you could only see some images. It could also only save ten of the latest tweets.
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