Peach is a mobile application-based social network created by Dom Hofmann. Peach is available as an

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and iOS application. It was introduced at the January 2016

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in Las Vegas. Peach has been compared to Ello, Path, and App.net. Peach has "magic words," which were compared to

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's similar slash shortcuts. These allow the user to access commonly used functions such as typing the letter "g" to send a

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or "c" to bring up a calendar, similar to a

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. Peach eschews the traditional news feed,

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, and tagging common to social networks. 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.

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noted that when it was introduced, " erything about Peach... seemed hip, down to the URL", but that by the end of the month it appeared that "interest in Peach softened".

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