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Published 11/04/2009 by TG Daily

Peek ships Twitter gadget for the terminally-sad

Peek has introduced a for social networking addicts and professional narcissists. From what we can discern, the $100 TwitterPeek was apparently designed to facilitate the affordable, yet painful transmission of insipid one-liners to the masses.  Find Twitter...

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...the TwitterPeak. "Twitter is so much more interesting when you can tweet and reply to conversations as they happen – in real time, not from behind a PC" claimed Peek...

Peek ships Twitter gadget for the terminally-sad [TG Daily - 11/04/2009]

...claimed Peek. "Twitter addicts will love that it's one device dedicated to their habit – fully loaded with 'always on' tweet delivery. Twitter newbies will revel in the simplicity of a handy device that is easy to understand." Yeah, right...

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