At the start of last month, Twitter launched the updated version of its app for iOS devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod. During the same month rumours were whirling that Twitter also has plans to release a brand new music application for Apple’s iOS. So finally on Thursday, April 18th the micro-blogging website proved all the rumours about a new music app true by releasing the service for the Web and iOS platform. iOS users can download Twitter’s new music app from the App Store without paying a single penny, as the social networking website has made it available without any charge. In addition to this, the app from the popular site includes some existing services for iOS users, so they could access their subscriptions of Spotify and Rdio along with the content previews from the iTunes Store.
“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. We will continue to explore and add other music service providers.”
Twitter’s music app is naturally built around its existing services that allows it to make the best use of the micro-blogging website’s trend algorithm in order to detect both emerging and popular songs along with popular artists by looking at users follow lists
Twitter #music is unsurprisingly based around the existing Twitter service, taking advantage of Twitter trends to detect popular and emerging artists and songs and leveraging users’ own follow lists and those of artists to suggest new music. Mentioning the app, ABC News reported that:
“The Popular page shows you new music that’s trending across Twitter while the Emerging tab shows “hidden talent found in tweets.” While those two parts feed you information about what the collective Twitterverse is jamming to, the last two focus on who you follow and your personal music taste.”
“ The Suggested tab shows artists you might like based on the artists you follow on the service and who they follow. And finally the #NowPlaying tab shows songs your friends are listening to or tweeting about. For instance, if your friend tweets that they are listening to a song by Justin Bieber, that song will show up on that page.”
Twitter has provided support to users in Canada, the US, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, so they could enjoy this brand new service.
Source: MacRumours
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