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    • CommentAuthorgabe
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2009
     
    Peeksters,
    As usual we have a couple things cooking in the Peek oven. We're looking for Peeksters that use Twitter a lot.

    If you think you fit the bill, email twitter@getpeek.com with your twitter username in the body.

    Thanks!
    • CommentAuthorJPruente
    • CommentTimeOct 19th 2009
     
    Hey, that sounds interesting. I've been using Brightkite to bridge updates onto Twitter via email. A lot has been broken/flaky since BK upgraded. Lemmie grab my Peek...
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    Ive been using twitter...trying to anyway. I use tweetbymail.com to bridge but have only found more issues, Half the time my post dont dont and 90% of the time I get mulitpules so dont use tweetbymail lol.
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    twitter support is just the thing that I need to convince like ten of my friends to get peek
    • CommentAuthorseaniccus
    • CommentTimeOct 20th 2009
     
    Hmm.. do you need people who tweet alot or check their feed a lot? Some days I tweet several times, some days I don't tweet at all - but I check my feed quite a bit. I may tweet more if I had it on the go in my Peek, i'm not sure - I've never had twitter on a mobile device. Still, I so want in on this program.
    • CommentAuthormcornelio
    • CommentTimeOct 20th 2009
     
    I use "ping.fm" to update all my social sites at one time including twitter, blogger, facebook, myspace, and yahoo360. It works pretty well. The way it works:

    (1) they give you a random_email_address@ping.fm
    (2) you register your desired social networks (twitter included)
    (3) send an email to your random_email_address@ping.fm with your micro blog comments. Long URLS are shortened automatically

    Works great for me.
    • CommentAuthorbellewitch
    • CommentTimeOct 22nd 2009
     
    i use ping.fm also, but it would be great to be able update twitter alone.
    • CommentAuthorandyl
    • CommentTimeOct 22nd 2009
     
    I use twittermail to update Twitter from my Peek.

    http://www.twittermail.com/

    It can use just the subject line or the body, ignore signatures, and several other options.
    • CommentAuthorandyl
    • CommentTimeOct 22nd 2009
     
    Also you can get your replies by email if you support twittermail with $
    • CommentAuthorvalzi
    • CommentTimeOct 24th 2009
     
    @bellewitch: You can use ping.fm to update twitter alone, actually. Take a look here: https://pingfm.pbworks.com/Posting-Groups. Just make a group that only includes twitter. Alternatively, you could set all your other social groups in pinf.fm to not include microblogging and then use the microblog method to update twitter as seen here: https://pingfm.pbworks.com/Posting-Methods

    Making ping.fm what shift+s is for would be wonderful. Then we would have simple control of all popular social status/microblogging from our peeks.
    • CommentAuthorbellewitch
    • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009
     
    @valzi & @andyl: thanks for the info!
    • CommentAuthorandyl
    • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009 edited
     
    Now it all makes sense:

    http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/10/27/peek-goes-twitter-and-is-now-available-at-blockbuster/

    Is that new theme really going to happen or is it just for advertising?

    Also I'm assuming what you really want is for the tag line to say "Sent form Peek xxxx minutes ago."

    Good free advertising.
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      CommentAuthorEric
    • CommentTimeOct 27th 2009
     
    A lot of good questions brought up in the comments of that link andy. Doesn't say if it will work with e-mail as well as Twitter and I notice that they say $15 a month instead of $20.
    • CommentAuthorjustpeeky
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009
     
    It appears to be a Twitter-only Peek, for $7.95 a month.

    http://www.amazon.com/TwitterPeek-Mobile-Tweeting-Service-Included/dp/B002R5AG4Q/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1256680314&sr=8-2-catcorr

    That seems like a really specialized device to me, odd that they didn't include email with it.
    • CommentAuthoredward
    • CommentTimeOct 28th 2009 edited
     
    Y'know, it'd be really cool if Peek could offer the Twitter application (Peekux Twitter Edition?) to existing Peeksters. Meanwhile, include the existing e-mail application as an unlockable upgrade on the Twitter Peeks. That way, a Twitter Peek buyer making an impulse purchase for $7.95/month could upgrade to the full e-mail Peek experience simply by making a phone call to Peek customer care!

    As for the Twitter Peek idea itself, I think it's great and proves (again) that Twitter is just e-mail that's got "To: World" set by default on all new messages!
    • CommentAuthordarkxsun
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    Anybody ever receive a reply about this thing? I sent my username the day of the original post but still nothing. I wonder if, with the announcement of the TwitterPeek, this "testing" plan was canned.
    • CommentAuthorjertronic
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    Still no word about this and I just saw the gadget guy on Jimmy Kimmel talking about the twitter peek. gaaaaaaah, I want my pronto changed to a twitter peek NAO!!!!
    • CommentAuthordarkxsun
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    Seriously chill (and, "nao"? Is this 4chan?)

    I was pretty sure the task at hand was testing some new Twitter integration with the current Peek, not "converting" our Peeks into Twitter boxes.

    You'd really rather have *just* Twitter than have email (which you can use Twitter through)?
    • CommentAuthorjertronic
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    yep.
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    I use Twitter with 2 accounts and have found the Facebook/Twitter Peek App's good. A Peek for email and a Peek for twits? Can there be just one? I would be willing to buy a new Peek if it did Email/SMS/Twitter/Facebook all instead of separate devices.
    • CommentAuthorjertronic
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    Emails can wait until I get to a computer. Tweets can not.
    • CommentAuthordarkxsun
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    @jertronic

    http://boards.getpeek.com/discussion/1511/twitterpeek-gets-official-on-jimmy-fallons-late-night/

    Not going to happen it seems. Time to buy another Peek.
    • CommentAuthorjertronic
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    @darkxsun

    Bummer. I was hoping there would be a similar process that changed Peek Classic to Peek Pronto since its really just the same hardware. I do realize that its not an upgrade, but more of a crossgrade, changer upperer, twittergrade... I could go on and on.
    • CommentAuthorgabe
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009 edited
     
    If you have a Peek Pronto you're not left on the sidelines to access Twitter from your Peek. You can use ping.fm to update Twitter and Peek Feed to pull down your stream.

    Check out http://ping.fm and http://www.getpeek.com/apps for Peek Feed.

    You'll use shift-s from the inbox to update your status

    Thanks
    • CommentAuthordarkxsun
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    @gabe I thought shift-s was for facebook? How do I set it for Twitter?
    • CommentAuthorjertronic
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    wait, shift-s is for Facebook no?
    • CommentAuthorjertronic
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009 edited
     
    I think peekfeed is really nice, just wish I could get things sooner than every 30 minutes. I'm sorry to sound greedy, but I need it to be more like every 10. If only.
    • CommentAuthoredward
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    TwitterPeek offers one key benefit versus Pronto + PeekFeed ... TwitPic. With TwitterPeek, one can view photos from TwitPic, probably similar to how we existing Peeksters can open an attachment.

    Suggestion to Gabe: can you allow existing Peeksters to set up a new @mypeekemail.com that can receive individual tweets as messages delivered to that account? That way, a tweet that has a TwitPic link can have the photo be added automatically as an attachment to the message deposited in the @mypeekemail.com account. Correspondingly, new emails from the @mypeekemail.com account can be posted directly to Twitter as tweets. Perhaps messages >140 characters can be chopped into multiple tweets since the Peek Pronto does not have a character counter.
    • CommentAuthorrich
    • CommentTimeNov 3rd 2009
     
    So... I'm sensing the whole Twitter Social for Peek experiment is dead for our Prontos?
    If we can have FaceBook Social built into our Peeks, why not like shift+T for Twitter Social?
    Would be so much nicer to have it added by Peek than to have to rely on ping.fm & twittermail etc.
    • CommentAuthorbradn
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2009
     
    I use Paki http://retroforth.org/paki/ works GREAT! fast too. Like 5 mins or less.
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      CommentAuthorEric
    • CommentTimeNov 6th 2009
     
    @bradn... I got one of my updates out at 12:04:58 and it was almost an instant update! LOL
    • CommentAuthordarkxsun
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2009
     
    Was the project mentioned in the original post canceled? I mean, I am aware of TwitterPeek but whatever you guys were planning when you made the first post... is that forgotten?
    • CommentAuthorgabe
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2009
     
    No, not forgotten. We needed to launch TwitterPeek first.

    Patience.
    • CommentAuthordarkxsun
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2009
     
    OH. Cool! Nevermind all that then. Once I know I *need* to have patience, I can. Thanks!
    • CommentAuthorsrandall
    • CommentTimeNov 10th 2009 edited
     
    Ping.fm is excellent.

    Peek and Ping make "Just Email?" more than it sounds.
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      CommentAuthorJohnH
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2009
     
    Why is this topic still at the top of the page? Isn't it pretty much done with the TwitterPeek launch or is this for something else?
    • CommentAuthorwattendorf
    • CommentTimeNov 18th 2009
     
    Hay i got an e-mail a while back from gabe and said that he was looking for peeksters that use peek already like i do and who are also twitter addicts like i am but i haven't heard anything back because he said he would send me a twitterpeek to test with 6 months of service and it has been a while and i haven't received just wondering when i will thanks.
    • CommentAuthorsrandall
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2009
     
    Just got my TwitterPeek today. This thing is sick. Was kinda hoping that it would be some nonsense so that I wouldn't have two devices that I couldn't be without.

    But this thing is sick. I WARN YOU, Get a TwitterPeek and you're going to be an addict. ADVICE: Probably one of the best gift to give this x-mas.

    Really, No B.S.
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      CommentAuthorJohnH
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2009
     
    I agree with @srandall It is awesome! I am having one problem though. The links in tweets do not work. It says "Sorry, we're having trouble displaying this attachment. Please visit us at www.twitterpeek.com for help". Is anyone else having this trouble? I have tried it with at least 10 different links. Same thing every time.
    John

    @JugglingWJ
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      CommentAuthortmel
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2009
     
    @JohnH - We're on it!
    • CommentAuthorsrandall
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2009
     
    By-The-Way, in testing the TwitterPeek today I discovered that this thing is blazingly fast. I don't think Pronto is this fast. I mean this thing is really fast.

    Sit in front of your computer (whatever site that shows your tweet feed) send a tweet from the TwitterPeek let your message disappear from the TwitterPeek screen. Put down the Peek and hit refresh on the computer. You won't get the opportunity to hit refresh again, your message will be there.

    That's your message hitting Peeks server, then hitting twitter, then hitting a third party like let's say facebook. This thing is fast.
    • CommentAuthorsrandall
    • CommentTimeNov 24th 2009
     
    I have to tell you guys. If you use a TwitterPeek you will find that any other method for tweeting on the go is just silly.

    I'm going to try someones ubber twitter on a Blackberry, just to see for myself. It can't be better than TwitterPeek.

    Ping was my thing, but it simply does not compare.

    I'm speaking GUI, the dance you do with your device. TwitterPeek is far better than I thought it would be.
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      CommentAuthorJohnH
    • CommentTimeNov 26th 2009
     
    I fixed my problem from earlier. Now I have a new one. I just got my TwitterPeek a couple days ago. Yesterday (Thanksgiving Day) after I sent 5 tweets it would not post any more until after midnight. They showed up under the "My Tweets" tab but never were posted. I even checked it later on the computer. Was that just because the servers were extremely busy with Black Friday? Or is there a limit of 5 tweets a day?
    John
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      CommentAuthortmel
    • CommentTimeNov 26th 2009
     
    @JohnH - Most likely a temporary hiccup, you can tweet as much as you want!

    Is it working for you now?
    • CommentAuthordarkxsun
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2009
     
    It's been intermittently "dropping" my tweets too... They show up on My Tweets but not online. They're not italics anymore, so they have left the device, but not on the site.

    Only for the past 2-3 days... Actually, it just happened a minute ago, so it's not fixed for me :/
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      CommentAuthortmel
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2009
     
    @darkxsun - Yup, something is not right.

    We're investigating it right now!
    • CommentAuthorxackr
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2009
     
    Same problem here. Random tweets don't make it. Also TwitterPeek took a bashing at Gizmodo this week but it was an unfair fight. I blogged a response here: http://xackr.blogspot.com/2009/11/twitterpeek-makes-adams-brain-hurtawwww.html

    Anybody who uses the TwitterPeek I think would instantly see the coolness of it.
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      CommentAuthorJohnH
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2009
     
    It seems to be working now. Still having trouble with an occasional link not working.
    • CommentAuthorgzusone
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2009
     
    @wattendorf I also got an email back on 11-10 from @Gabe asking for my address but never heard back. I sent another reply thinking it might have gone to spam or something but still havent heard anything yet. I originally spoke with @TMel about getting my Peek flashed to TwitterPeek so I am guessing that may be the route I will have to take. I was hoping to test drive it first but oh well!!!
    • CommentAuthordarkxsun
    • CommentTimeNov 27th 2009
     
    @xackr I agree. I was super skeptical and I'm definitely not sold on the subscription cost yet, but it's really really cool...

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