Comments on: A Secret Twitter Feature and The New Dell Streak Tablet

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Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:26:41 +0000

[...] are two major tablets on the market (the Dell Streak 5″ is too small to be called a tablet and the 7″ Streak is too new to call it major) [...]

By: c_bethWalters

c_bethWalters — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:48:36 +0000

I am still new to the many facets of Twitter; it’s encouraging to find intuitive information on Dell’s Twitter acct. My thanks to Stephanieatdell for including the link. I will look into the streak and maybe Allenware, too.

By: Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:43:50 +0000

Great article, at first I was thinking “OK another DM on twitter piece” but you blew me away with a totally to the point analysis.

And yes, the Streak looks great but I’m lusting after a Dell Alienware Mx11 or 15 right now

By: hilzfuld

hilzfuld — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:41:13 +0000

Richard, I think you are a little confused. Dell is NOT following me and I am able to DM them, that was the whole point.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:51:14 +0000

I have never had to communicate with Dell, but I am a big fan of their products. The only type of computer hardware I would consider buying for a Windows based system is Dell. Everything is rock solid.

Streak looks amazing!!

By: Alex Schleber

Alex Schleber — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:37:31 +0000

Yeah , that always-on DM feature was announced for (presumably paid) business accounts a few weeks back. Good to see it working in the wild.

Re: the Streak, seems priced a bit high at $500, given that that is the entry price for the much larger (almost 4x) iPad.

I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the 7″ Streak before X-mas, which seems like the perfect form factor to me. I didn’t buy the iPad b/c I thought it was too large, even though I REALLY wanted to have it to experiment. I want to run Swype as the main text input, and 7″ in portrait mode seems pretty ideal for that.

Dell needs to price these at about $297-397 to really pick up momentum though. If they end up costing nearly as much as the iPad, there’s no way they’ll overcome the Apple “aspirational” branding factor.

By: NiteStar

NiteStar — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:00:58 +0000

This isn’t so much of a secret — all of Twitter’s Twitter accounts can be DM’d w/o the need for them to follow you back. This is how to best communicate with @Spam & @Support. If they could do this for themselves, then obviously it must be possible for them to do it for others.

By: Richard Lusk

Richard Lusk — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:36:16 +0000

This isn’t a new feature. You could always DM your followers. So since you follow Dell they can DM you.Its just that you can’t DM Dell untill they follow you back.

By: hilzfuld

hilzfuld — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:30:35 +0000

Sorry to hear that Shawn, but try to write them on Twitter and you will see what good service is.

By: shawn

shawn — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:51:29 +0000

Well it’s nice to know Dell’s twitter customer service is good, because their phone customer service is pathetic. I’ve had nothing but problems with them.