Microblogging platform Twitter on Thursday launched a music service, called Twitter Music which works for the time being in partnership with Apple and Spotify and Rdio sites.
“Today, we’re releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter,” reads a message posted on the official blog of the social networking site. The message continues: “It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists. It also brings artists’ music-related Twitter activity front and center: go to their profiles to see which music artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists. And, of course, you can tweet songs right from the app.”
Users can listen to pieces of songs that they are interested in coming from iTunes, Apple’s online music store. Spotify and Rdio subscribers will be able to connect on these streaming services through this application and listen to full the tracks. Twitter representatives say they will continue to add to the list of collaborators other music providers.
The application can be downloaded from the App Store starting today or users can download it on the Internet, where Twitter has started to distribute it Thursday (music.twitter.com). The service, which will be available initially in the U.S., Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand will be brought in the future to Android based phones, and in other countries.
Music is one of the most important areas on Twitter to date, 10 of the most wanted followers in this network are singers. In January, the young Canadian singer Justin Bieber became the “king” of the Twitter community. Bieber currently has 35.9 million fans on the microblogging platform, followed in the second position by Lady Gaga, who has 35 million “followers” on this site, while Katy Perry has 33.5 million fans and Rihanna – 28.8 million.
By launching Twitter Music, the social network Twitter wants to attack the very competitive online music sector.
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