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New Billboard charts will track the most popular music on Twitter

2014-03-27T12:51:27-04:00

Twitter is full of conversations about music, and the company wants those tweets to be important outside the world of the social network. To that end, Twitter has now partnered with Billboard to work on real-time charts that the companies hope will be "the new industry standard for tracking and surfacing the conversation around music as it happens."

The charts will monitor conversations about artists, tracks, and albums, and it will show which top musicians are the most talked about at any given moment. Another chart will highlight up-and-coming acts, many of which stir up buzz on social networks long before they're recognized by major indu …

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Twitter #Music is officially dead

2014-03-21T18:46:04-04:00

Months after the company stopped active development on the app, Twitter #Music is being pulled from the App Store today, the company said in a tweet. The app, which attempted to harness conversations around music and artists on Twitter to create a new way to discover music, failed to peel listeners away from the many competing music apps on the market. The app will cease working for existing users on April 18th, the company said.

Later this afternoon, we will be removing Twitter #music from the App Store. If you have the app, it will continue to work until April 18.
- Twitter Music (@TwitterMusic) March 21, 2014

In a separate tweet, the com …

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Twitter ‘strongly considering’ shutting down #Music just six months after launch, says report

2013-10-19T16:53:10-04:00

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Twitter #Music may not be much longer for this world. All Things D's Mike Isaac reports that multiple sources say the company is "strongly considering" shutting down the music discovery service, which has seen little public interest. Those sources didn't reveal how long #Music could last, but the report says that the service's fate "is nearly sealed."

The service first went live in April after a number of rumors that sparked a noticeable amount of hype. Activity on the site spiked in the early days, but since then the service has been largely forgotten. The sources tell All Things D that since launch downloads and engagement has been "abysm …

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Twitter #Music playlists have arrived on Rdio

2013-09-14T19:41:04-04:00

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On the heels of its Spotify app release on Friday, Twitter's #Music platform is taking a swing at Rdio's streaming music service as well. Friday night, Twitter announced a new page within Rdio that would display 15 different #Music-generated playlists, including trending song and artist charts. The playlists are continuously updating, but otherwise fairly meager compared to the more polished Spotify app. Still, the possibility of playlist porting shows #Music's algorithms to be surprisingly versatile. Unlike Rdio's Heavy Rotation service, #Music playlists will import listening data from outside the app, potentially a boon for a smaller servi …

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Twitter #Music becomes more useful with its own Spotify app

2013-09-13T13:42:05-04:00

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After a launch with plenty of buzz, Twitter #Music got awful quiet. There are a number of reasons for this, but the service may have just become a whole lot more useful. Twitter launched its own app for Spotify yesterday, meaning that you can use essentially the entire Twitter #Music interface within the Spotify desktop app. The reason why it's a real boon for the new music discovery service, however, is that all Spotify members (even those with free subscriptions) can now find and listen to entire tracks using Twitter #Music. (Previously, only paid Spotify and Rdio users could stream.) And since it's built into Spotify, listening to songs a …

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A month after launch, have we forgotten about Twitter #Music?

2013-05-21T10:30:04-04:00

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A little over a month ago, Twitter launched #Music, its take on what a truly social music discovery service might look like. It was strategic, leveraging Twitter's enormous user base and vast amount of data, and thanks to a well-timed acquisition, saw some of the best product design the company has ever produced. When it launched, the press flocked to it as the second coming of Vine, a polished way for Twitter to shake up a new space and create an extra source for ad revenue in the bargain. If nothing else, this was bound to shake up the world of mobile music-streaming.

Can #Music survive in one of the hottest spaces in the industry?

By now, …

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Twitter #Music wants to be your source for new tunes (hands-on)

2013-04-18T12:38:35-04:00

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After a month of rumors, Twitter publicly launched its #Music service for iPhone and the web this morning - and you'll no longer have to be among the rich and famous to play around with it. Twitter #Music is a simple, visual way to explore songs and artists who your friends are listening to and who you may not know about, just by signing in with an existing Twitter account. It's a music exploration service that actually has you exploring - poking around at a grid of logos and artwork and searching through profiles, rather than curating yet another account of your own.

Some sections are more useful than others

The app and website are broken d …

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Twitter #Music for iPhone and web now available

2013-04-18T08:12:13-04:00

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After a week of teasing, Twitter has unveiled Twitter #Music, its new music discovery and streaming app. The new service is focusing on a recommendation engine that pulls in trending data from across Twitter and your followers to offer up music recommendations from the vast catalogs of iTunes, Spotify, and Rdio. The app will be available on iOS starting today, but there's no Android app quite yet. However, everyone will be able to access Twitter #Music through the browser at music.twitter.com.

As first reported by ABC's Joanna Stern, the service will launch later today, help you find what popular music is trending on Twitter, and will recom …

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Musicians gloat about early access to Twitter #music app

2013-04-17T04:08:47-04:00

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The past week has seen a flurry of activity around Twitter's purported new music streaming service, #music. As previously reported, Ryan Seacrest told his followers last Thursday that Twitter #music was real, and he was already playing with it. Over the last two days, a number of prominent musicians have also tweeted about the service, which reportedly pulls in tracks from a number of services including Rdio, Spotify, YouTube, Vevo, SoundCloud, and iTunes.

Loving the new app by Twiiter #Music.I think this is gonna revolutionize things real fast…
- Nikki Sixx (@NikkiSixx) April 16, 2013

In one tweet, Nikki Sixx calls #music revolutionary, …

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Twitter #music page code shows Spotify, Rdio, YouTube, and other app integration

2013-04-12T18:28:36-04:00

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With Twitter's new music discovery page online but not yet available to most of us, people have started digging into the page itself for details. After looking at the landing page's HTML, designer Youssef Sarhan found another linked page and dug through its source as well, revealing some of the UI elements and services that will probably be integrated into the tool. Specifically, Sarhan found hooks to connect YouTube, Vevo, Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, and SoundCloud; some of these had already been rumored, but they're now apparently confirmed. Early adopters have also begun tweeting out tracks from Rdio and SoundCloud, corroborating these feature …

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