Twitter, which released its music application to a handful of
celebrities last week, announced today on "Good Morning America" and
via a blog post that the rest of the world can now pile in. Twitter #Music will
be available starting today at https://music.twitter.com and as a separate app
for the iPhone through the App Store in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland,
Australia and New Zealand.
The application, as previously reported, lets users discover
music through artist and others' Tweets, listen to their music using Spotify or
Rdio, watch their videos on YouTube or Vevo and buy songs via iTunes; the
company said in the blog post they will "continue to explore and add other
music service providers." There is no Android app yet, although the
company said in the blog post "over time, we will bring the service to
Android as well as to more countries."
The #Music app is based on four pages or tabs, which you can
swipe through to access. The Emerging tab shows "hidden talent found in
tweets," while Popular page displayes music that's trending across
Twitter. The other two tabs focus on who
you follow and your personal music taste.
Twitter Music is yet another attempt by the platform to branch
out beyond the confines of its self-imposed 140-character limit and delve into
the world of richer media. In January, it released Vine, a video blogging app
that lets users capture and post videos lasting six seconds or less. A year
ago, it bought Posterous to help enhance its photo sharing capabilities.
The free music app, available on both Web browsers or on mobile
devices, is a separate download from the main Twitter platform. Instead of
showing all updates, the music app presents a subset of the main Twitter stream
that’s related to artists and their music. And instead of showing trending
topics for the entire Twitter sphere, it shows charts of trending songs, albums
or artists.
The charts are based upon technology developed by We Are Hunted,
a small Australian company that Twitter recently acquired and relocated to San
Francisco.
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