GatorPeeps – African micro blogging service?

Published by Charl Norman on Apr 25th, 2009, 7 Comments

“Africa’s talking, are you?”

Afrigator launched moments ago a new product called Gatorpeeps. It was unveiled at BarCamp Nigeria where one of the Afrigator founders, Justin Hartman, is delivering a keynote. Gatorpeeps seems to be a micro blogging service closely modeled off the hugely popular Twitter. (@replies, 140 characters, following)

Gatorpeeps also groups similar posts in ‘communities’ using hash tag functionality – For example you can follow all Gatorpeeps ‘tweets’ (someone coin a phrase, quick) for BarCamp Nigeria here.

Internet strategist Jason Bagley had this to say

Gatorpeeps is a Twitter for Africans so to speak. Will be interesting to watch its adoption rate amongst the Afrigator community. Success seems to be the norm with all Afrigator products, but will Gatorpeeps fly? Only time and user adoption will tell.

UPDATE – Afrigator co-founder Mike Stopforth just blogged about Gatorpeeps

Gatorpeeps is a micro-blogging platform, not unlike Twitter or Pownce (which died), that makes it really easy for existing Afrigator users to connect with other Afrigator users in 140 characters or less, and with all the other cool functionality you’ve come to expect from a micro-blogging platform.

Secondly I can guarantee that Gatorpeeps will either be a huge success or a bit of a flop. And that depends entirely on you, who have supported us so faithfully until now as we evolve this little beast of ours into something really useful, valuable and meaningful to you and the rest of Africa’s digital citizens. Help us make it a success by giving it a go and sending us feedback like you always do.

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http://www.integralwebsolutions.co.za/Blog.aspx Robert Bravery

Wow, this is a great service. I like it. I like the new functionality that is not here on Twitter.

But I have to say, will it be worthwhile. How many people will keep a active account on both Twitter and Gator. I don’t see myself working both MicroBlogs.

Its like maintaining a MySpace account and a Facebook account. At some stage one is going to suffer while the other prospers. In the case of Twitter, it is already well established, with many having many many followers.

But what do I know. Just my thoughts.

Anyway, I sure hope it works, will mean that peeps or tweets or whatever you call it, will have more local pull to them
http://www.blacklooks.org Sokari

People probably said the same thing about Afrigator when it started – though I hear Muti is loosing ground. Still its up to use to support the project and with time possibly there will be a way to post to both Twitter and Gatorpeeps simultaneously.
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Rocky Patel

I don’t get the point of twitter honestly. But it looks like someone is going to pay big bucks to acquire them.
http://www.network-switch.info Billy Lloyd

microblogging is really useful when you want to broadcast short updates. i am still leaning towards traditional blogging.::~

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