Twitter Launches the World's Umpteenth Online Music Site 45
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?"
Twitter (Score:5, Funny)
So they will play the first 140 bytes of the song ?
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So they will play the first 140 bytes of the song ?
You'll all sing like the birdies sing, Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet!
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So they will play the first 140 bytes of the song ?
No, they'll choose a bit rate to make all the songs 140 bytes. It'll be fine!
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I wonder how that will sound. Nothing? Heh.
Even MIDI files aren't that tiny.
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Oh yes. Let's have Twitter start distributing 140 byte executables. What could possibly go wrong?
That word (Score:4, Informative)
I do not think it is a word. Perhaps you should try "umpteenth". Note the "m".
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They're, their, there, grammar Nazi. It'll be ok.
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...think you mean spelling nazi
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Re:That word (Score:4)
As a mathematician and programmer I am personnally offended it isn't (n-1)th
This is bound to fail (Score:1)
I hear the songs can only be 140 seconds long.
Re:This is bound to fail (Score:4, Funny)
Isn't that about the length of a normal pop song anyway?
so what? (Score:1)
why look another twitter feature I will never use
Re:so what? (Score:5, Funny)
Because nobody should ever do anything if you, personally, won't use it
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Pretty much.
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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 th
"Can Twitter's effort stand out, or ...?" (Score:1)
MySpace? (Score:2)
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.
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There are people whose opinion of music that I trust to at least not waste my time, and I'm always looking for something new. Still, I'd have to agree that signal to noise ratio on something like Twitter is likely to be something of a problem.
Sigh ... (Score:1)
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.
Hmmm ... (Score:3)
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)
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well I am not on your lawn
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Hey, you can do anything you want on your lawn. You can even come over to my lawn and tell me how awesome your lawn is.
But I'm not going to run out and buy pink flamingos and lawn jockeys because you think they're awesome. ;-)
I don't get it, but that doesn't mean I care about your choice to do it. I'm obviously not going to deny that loads of people use Facebook and like it, because that would be silly.
But since every site now links to Facebook, I'm betting they get to know prett
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Given that it's a social network, its interrelationships (or lack thereof) with existing social networks were an issue. Now, as someone who doesn't use social networks, you can argue that it doesn't apply to you, but you can hardly say that it's a positive, any more than creating inedible cheese is a perk for the lactose intolerant.
Crap (Score:1)
I can't remember the last time I've seen such a vast collection of shitty music all in one space.
Can't see it working (Score:3, Funny)
Oh great... (Score:2)
It seems like they're just acting like an affiliate that recommends music based on tweets?
App.Net (Score:2)
From Michael Breon_Austin (Score:1)