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Twitter Launches the World's Umpteenth Online Music Site
Nerval's Lobster writes "Twitter is plunging into the online music game. Twitter Music (or "Twitter #music," in the company's own rendering) uses Twitter activity such as Tweets and engagement "to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists," according to an April 18 posting on Twitter's official blog. Songs on the app derive from three sources: iTunes, Spotify, or Rdio. And yes, Twitter is big, but its victory is by no means assured: other IT giants have entered the same market only to watch highly-publicized projects wither away, doomed by some combination of audience apathy and implementation issues. Take Apple's Ping, for example: launched in September 2010 as part of an iTunes update, the ambitious social-networking and music-recommendation engine immediately ran into a number of problems, including a lack of Facebook integration (despite Steve Jobs' assurances to the contrary) and widespread reports of spam and fake accounts. Can Twitter's effort stand out, or will it just be lost in all the noise?"
So they will play the first 140 bytes of the song ?
I do not think it is a word. Perhaps you should try "umpteenth". Note the "m".
I hear the songs can only be 140 seconds long.
Because nobody should ever do anything if you, personally, won't use it
Personally, I've already forgotten about whatever it is I'm commenting on....
Incidentally, if I see someone post that they like a song on (pick your social network) I ignore it. Can't remember the last time I actually clicked one. Maybe that's just me.
Pretty much.
Hey Tiothy you illiterate idiot, it's "umpteenth".
What qualifies you to be an editor again? Because it aint your prowess with the English language.
Is lack of Facebook integration really a problem?
Admittedly, I see no value in Apple's Ping or most forms of social networking, so I'm clearly too old and grumpy, and therefore not their target market. But I can't see wanting to tell Facebook such information about myself.
To me, lack of Facebook integration is a good thing. (And, yes, I'm aware of the fact that for lots of people apparently it's the most awesome thing ever)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Frankly, I'm more concerned about the fact that they're devoting resources to branching out further when their original focus is in need of work.
They crippled third-party clients with the API restrictions, and have since come out with Vine and #Music. Meanwhile, DMs are still unreliable, you can't filter anything beyond blocking users or turning off their retweets, follow request responses don't work reliably, @'ing now pulls up a universal search instead of putting your followers/followees at the top of the list, and a myriad of other things they seem to be neglecting in favor of changing the mobile UI appearance.
Something tells me this outfit isn't being managed very well.
I can't remember the last time I've seen such a vast collection of shitty music all in one space.
Nobody wants to listen to songs 160 bytes at a time.
It'll just be all justin dweeber crap.
It seems like they're just acting like an affiliate that recommends music based on tweets?
Though I hate to have yet another duck nibbling my wee budget to death, an $30-some annual ad-free App.Net is starting to look appealing. Twitter still does have some utility, but it's becoming an unjustifiable time-suck; and wading through more and more ads and 'promoted' bullshit is hastening the day of departure.
The Twitter #music looks like a cool concept and might gain enough traction to become pretty big. I still haven't tested ease of use, but releasing something to celebrities prior to the general public will always get people talking.