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“Africa’s talk­ing, are you?” — the Afrigator slo­gan, the com­pany that has (a few minutes ago) released it’s new product, Gatorpeeps, an African micro-​​blogging plat­form sim­ilar to Twitter.

Gatorpeeps has some really nifty fea­tures, includ­ing hashtag (#) com­munit­ies, allow­ing easy cat­egor­ising of “peeps” (“tweets” on Gatorpeeps) as well as stream­lined search­ing on vari­ous top­ics through these hasht­ags. The ser­vice is auto­mat­ic­ally avail­able to exist­ing Afrigator users (a con­veni­ent aspect to encour­age exist­ing users to adopt the ser­vice), and has a clean and clear inter­face for work­ing your way around Gatorpeeps.

I’m excited to see the pro­gres­sion of this ser­vice. Many kudos to the Afrigator team on an awe­some job of Gatorpeeps. One fea­ture I would like to see on the ser­vice would be more Ajax-​​like func­tion­al­ity (for example, load­ing the @username into the “peep” box without reload­ing the page). This is not so much a fea­ture as much as an enhance­ment. All in good time hey.

For more inform­a­tion on Gatorpeeps and what oth­ers have to say about the ser­vice, Bandwidth Blog and Mike Stopforth’s blog have posts dis­cuss­ing the service.

See you in Gatorville!