Peach
Stable release
1.2.3 (October 3, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-10-03)[1])
Android

1.2.2 (January 31, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-01-31)[2]) [±]

Operating systemiOS, Android
Platformsocial networking mobile application
Websitepeach.cool

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

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

Peach has "magic words," which were compared to Slack's similar slash shortcuts.[3][7] These allow 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 eschews 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. ^ "Apple on the App Store". iTunes Store. 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  2. ^ "Peach — share vividly". Google Play Store. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  3. ^ a b c Laforge, Patrick (2016-01-11). "Peach App for the iPhone Stakes a Social Media Claim". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  4. ^ a b c Kyle Chayka (10 February 2016). "Peach Is a Great New App You Definitely Don't Need". Bloomberg.com.
  5. ^ a b Ward-Bailey, Jeff (2016-01-14). "Peach – a plucky, pared down social network – ditches news feeds and hashtags". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  6. ^ Hern, Alex (2016-01-11). "What is Peach? The new social network app taking the tech world by storm". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  7. ^ a b Feldman, Brian (2016-01-11). "How Peach's Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line, Is Becoming Mainstream Again". Following: How We Live Online. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  8. ^ Hussey, Matthew (2016-01-09). "New social network Peach is being taken over by people using fake celebrity names". The Next Web. Retrieved 2016-01-16.

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