“Twitter Inc launched a stand-alone music-streaming app on Wednesday, opening another front in the micromessaging service’s ambitious expansion into multimedia content,” Gerry Shih reports for Reuters.
“The iPhone app, called #music, will recommend and stream songs based on who users follow on Twitter and artists’ recommendations,” Shih reports. “The songs will be streamed via Rdio and Spotify, the subscription-based music services, and iTunes, Apple Inc’s music store.”
Shih reports, “Twitter said in its blog-post announcement that #music will be available in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand beginning Thursday. A release date for the Android app has not yet been announced.”
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Twitter announced viq the company’s blog, “The songs on Twitter #music currently come from three sources: iTunes, Spotify or Rdio. By default, you will hear previews from iTunes when exploring music in the app. Subscribers to Rdio and Spotify can log in to their accounts to enjoy full tracks that are available in those respective catalogs.”
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MacDailyNews Note: Twitter #music is ompatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation), iPad, and iPad mini. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
You can download Twitter #music from Apple’s iTunes App Store today, or try the web version, which will be rolling out over the next few hours: music.twitter.com.
What’s Twitter?
You mean you’re not interested in everyone’s random thoughts at any given moment?
Not even mine.
I really like that this music discovery service is an adjunct to other services, not another brand new competitor.
Who gives a shit about Twitter?
That’s funny.
It’s called Hash is a drug. Drug-Music is the program called. Noice.