Gatorpeeps – The African Twitter
Afrigator has become a big player in the internet market globally never mind on our dark continent. They have a few 2 very successful products that are starting to pick up a lot of momentum.
When we heard the news on Saturday we were quite literally blown away by how quietly and effeciently the new product was launched.
Gatorpeeps
Gatorpeeps is the latest product from the Gator Pen and is quite simply a micro-blogging platform. Think Twitter. It has the same 140 character fit-as-much-as-you-can updates that is required for any micro-blogging platform.
It is hard to say if it will be taken on as Twitter is so popular and so powerful. However it has been made to perfection and boasts the many cool features that Twitter has as well as a few that Twitter does not have and most likely will never have.
- Intergration with the Afrigator system showing your latest blog post as well as linking directly into your Afrigator account. Great! No signup just instant “peeping”.
- Addition of communities. The # tag has been used on Twitter for ages but that is how far it has gone. Gatorpeeps have implemented what you would call # communities which adds you to the community of that # word.
These features to me are key to the success of the platform however Afrigator have told me that this is only the beginning and that we should all be expecting a bit more in the not so distant future.
We will have to see later today if Gatorpeeps is taken in by the community as any results over the weekend would have been poor because a majority of the internet users in Africa use the internet during working hours.
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