Software:Peach (social network)

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Peach
Peach (social network) logo.png
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Peach iOS app screenshot.png
The Peach app on an iPhone
Operating systemiOS, Android[1]
Platformsocial networking mobile application
Websitepeach.cool

Peach was[2] a mobile application-based social network created by Dom Hoffman.[3] Peach was available as an Android and iOS application. Hoffman is a co-founder of Vine. It was introduced at the January 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.[4]

Peach had been compared to Ello, Path, and App.net.[3][5][6][4]

Peach had "magic words," which were compared to Slack's similar slash shortcuts.[3][7] These allowed the user to access commonly used functions such as typing the letter "g" to send a GIF or "c" to bring up a calendar, similar to a command line interface.[7]

Peach eschewed the traditional news feed, hashtagging, and tagging common to social networks.[5] The editor-in-chief of The Next Web described Peach as a hybrid of Twitter and Slack, while noting that some users of the social network were creating fake celebrity accounts.[8] Bloomberg Business noted that when it was introduced, "[e]verything about Peach... seemed hip, down to the URL", but that by the end of the month it appeared that "interest in Peach softened".[4]

References

  1. http://peach.cool/
  2. Alang, Navneet (2016-01-15). "The Peach App Is Dead, But It Taught Us Something About Social Media". The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/127804/peach-app-dead-taught-us-something-social-media. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Laforge, Patrick (2016-01-11). "Peach App for the iPhone Stakes a Social Media Claim". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/technology/peach-for-the-iphone-stakes-a-social-media-claim.html. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kyle Chayka (10 February 2016). "Peach Is a Great New App You Definitely Don't Need". Bloomberg.com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-10/peach-is-a-great-new-app-you-definitely-don-t-need. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Ward-Bailey, Jeff (2016-01-14). "Peach – a plucky, pared down social network – ditches news feeds and hashtags". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0114/Peach-a-plucky-pared-down-social-network-ditches-news-feeds-and-hashtags. 
  6. Hern, Alex (2016-01-11). "What is Peach? The new social network app taking the tech world by storm" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/11/peach-new-social-network-app-vine-ios. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Feldman, Brian (2016-01-11). "How Peach’s Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line, Is Becoming Mainstream Again". http://nymag.com/following/2016/01/how-the-command-line-became-mainstream-again.html. 
  8. Hussey, Matthew (2016-01-09). "New social network Peach is being taken over by people using fake celebrity names" (in en-US). The Next Web. https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2016/01/09/new-social-network-peach-is-being-taken-over-by-people-using-fake-celebrity-names/. 

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