4-18-13
As expected, Twitter is now in the music business. TechCrunch says, "Twitter Music seems to feel like a lot of other music apps while still being slightly unique from all of them." Mashable says, "It's a bold move for Twitter which now seems to be picking up and expanding into all kinds of new services. This could also spell trouble for streaming service Pandora, which is not on the Twitter Music partner list ? yet. Mashable says Twitter Music is practically making you follow musicians and that's good news for artists" The service was launched Thursday on "Good Morning America." Here's how the service works.
Twitter Music uses Twitter activity, including tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular songs and emerging artists. The songs on Twitter Music currently come from three sources: iTunes, Spotify or Rdio. By default, users will hear previews from iTunes when exploring music in the app. Subscribers to Rdio and Spotify can log in to their accounts to hear full tracks that are available in those respective catalogs. Other music providers are being explored by Twitter. Users can also tweet songs right from the app.
Users interested in songs tweeted by the artists and people they follow on Twitter can navigate to #NowPlaying to view and listen to those songs. Or if you?re scrolling through a chart and you want to learn more about a band, you can tap their avatar to see their top song, follow them right from the chart, or tap their Twitter username to go to their profile. Or if you want to listen to music from an artist you follow, you can search the artist using the search icon in the top right corner. Then tap one of the artists you?re interested in and hit the play button to begin listening, or press "Play" on the player to listen to all the artists.
(4/19/2013 4:57:13 PM)
Tied into AM/FM? Yeah, like a boat anchor around its neck. . .
(4/19/2013 7:42:57 AM)
Is Twitter Music tied into am/fm radio in any way?
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