Do you love Twitter more than you love money? If so, I have the perfect product for you. It’s a gadget that can send tweets, receive tweets, search for tweets and…uh…absolutely nothing else. It’s called the TwitterPeek and it’s the world’s first dedicated Twitter device.

You can be forgiven if this news makes you look at your calendar to make sure it’s not April 1st. But it’s no joke. The company behind the TwitterPeek is called Peek. They’ve already released the Peek and the Peek Pronto, similarly single-use devices that can be used only for mobile email and text messaging, respectively.

The TwitterPeek features a small screen, and a full QWERTY keyboard. It’s always on, and always connected. Which, come to think of it, actually sounds like it could be kind of cool if you do a lot of tweeting. After all, the thing’s got to be really cheap, right? Right?

Well, no, not exactly. You can buy one right now on Amazon for $199.95. Which is about the price of an iPhone when you get a 3 year contract. And while iPhones include features like phones, compasses, mp3 players, and access to over 100,000 different applications, the similarly priced TwitterPeek lets you tweet. That $199.95 price tag does, however, include a lifetime of connectivity. So that’s something. You can actually buy one for only $99.95 if you only want 6 months of free service (with your network connection costing $7.95 per month after that period elapses).

The whole thing seems kind of crazy, though Peek definitely got one thing right – timing the product release right at the start of the holiday shopping season. Given how many people out there have very long gift-buying lists, it’s entirely possible that the TwitterPeek will be showing up under quite a few Christmas trees. If you do happen to get one, just remember to smile, thank the person who gave it to you, and try not to let them see you sending any tweets from your home computer, laptop, netbook, BlackBerry, iPhone or any of the other hundred or so gadgets that are already capable of handling your Twitter needs.

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Tags: Amazon, Social Media, Twitter, TwitterPeek

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