Twitter Music goes official with Rdio and Spotify integration, iPhone app coming today

posted by Victor H. / Apr 18, 2013, 8:11 AM

Twitter Music goes official with Rdio and Spotify integration, iPhone app coming today

Rumors about Twitter launching a music service floated around for nearly a week now, and today the company has finally come out by officially announcing that it is indeed rolling out “Twitter #Music” for iPhone and on the web.

Twitter Music looks a lot similar to other music apps with music categorized in four tabs: Suggested, #NowPlaying, Popular, and Emerging. It uses the platform of a startup WeAreHunted it quietly acquired last year.

Its biggest feature, though, is complete integration with Rdio and Spotify, two of the most popular music streaming services. Twitter’s unique role is in getting data from your followers to recommend and deliver music perfectly suited to your tastes. It also syncs with iTunes.

Interestingly, unlike its previous launches where Twitter usually targeted early adopters, this time the microblog is going straight for the mainstream. First because it made the announcement on the widely popular Good Morning, America and second for its tight integration of Rdio and Spotify. The Twitter Music iOS app should become available later today and an Android app is coming soon.

source: Twitter Music

Twitter Music app launches today: iPhone first

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6 Comments

1. axllebeer

Posts: 272; Member since: Apr 05, 2011

Interesting. Will have to play around with this when it comes to Android.

posted on Apr 18, 2013, 8:46 AM 0

2. KingKurogiii

Posts: 5713; Member since: Oct 23, 2011

looks alright but i don't use Twitter for anything but contests. it better have a more Holo look when it comes to Android though.

posted on Apr 18, 2013, 9:29 AM 0

3. feres13

Posts: 307; Member since: Dec 23, 2011

Vine, Mailbox, Flipboard 2.0 and now Twitter music? When are all of these coming to Android???

posted on Apr 18, 2013, 9:33 AM 0

4. Jyakotu

Posts: 867; Member since: Dec 12, 2008

iPhone always gets everything first. :-(

posted on Apr 18, 2013, 11:05 AM 2

5. Timmehor

Posts: 599; Member since: Mar 09, 2013

I hope you know the reason.

posted on Apr 18, 2013, 7:26 PM 0

6. Wenkinator

Posts: 1; Member since: Nov 23, 2012

Oh no! I can't access Twiiter Music on my smartphone? The end must be near... Wait. I forgot. Twitter is irrelevant to me, and so are my followers "data" when it comes to what I listen to.