# Twitter Music uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists.

# You can discover music that’s popular on Twitter, get new music recommendations and listen to it all within the app.

# Twitter Music  encourages you to follow bands and musicians.

# It brings artists’ music-related Twitter activity front and center.

# You can go to artists’ profiles to see which other artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists.

# You can tweet songs from the app.

# The songs on Twitter #music currently come from  iTunes, Spotify and Rdio.

# You can listen to entire songs if you have a Spotify or Rdio subscriptions.

# You will be able to hear previews from iTunes when exploring music in the app.

#Subscribers to Rdio and Spotify can log in to their accounts to enjoy full tracks.

# You can navigate to #NowPlaying to view and listen to songs that have been tweeted by the artists and people you follow.

# You can new songs you discover  with your followers by simply tapping the spinning disc in the lower left corner. You can tweet from there using the Tweet icon in the top right corner.

# Twitter #Music also lets users buy tracks directly from iTunes

Check  Twitter #Music out now and let us know what you think.

Ryan Seacrest of “American Idol” has  reported that he’s playing around with it, as retweeted by Twitter’s VP of Business and Corporate Development, Kevin Thau

@RyanSeacrest:

Playing with @twitter‘s new music app (yes it’s real!)…there’s a serious dance party happening at idol right now.

lovin the app…shows what artists are trending, also has up and coming artists… spinning u now @frankturner

The app suggests artists and tracks to users based on a number of personalized signals, including the Twitter accounts a user follows on the microblogging service. Users will be able to listen to clips of music from inside the app, using third-party services like iTunes, Soundcloud; they will also be able to watch music videos provided by Vevo, the music video service owned by Universal Music and Sony.

We Are Hunted informed its users of the acquisition on its site, giving them the opportunity to grab their favorites before their accounts are shut down:

On While we are shutting down wearehunted.com, we will continue to create services that will delight you, as part of the Twitter team.There’s no question that Twitter and music go well together. Artists turn to Twitter first to connect with fans, and people share and discover new songs and albums every day. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on at Twitter.

This weekend kicks off Coachella, the huge music festival put on in the middle of the California desert every year, hence the timely need for the Twitter music app launch.

Costolo said, “I think Jack [Dorsey] would agree in this case, that I’m much more an extrovert and he’s much more of an introvert.  But the two of us have a great relationship and I think we’ve found the right way to work together and make sure we’re spending a lot of time together.”  He also said, “Our user growth drives everything…All of the benefits of the business and growing the business and extending the platform are derived from that.”

 Costolo on his management style:

“I guess if I had to summarize my management style — it would be — present.  I try to make sure that I understand what all the various teams are working on.  I think have a strong understanding of who the great individual contributors in the company are across organizations. I spend a lot of time with individual teams trying to understand what’s preventing them from being moving faster, what’s preventing them from getting things done that they want go get done, and then helping remove road blocks from those kinds of things. I pride myself on spending a great deal of time in meetings and just one-on-one conversations with individual contributors –as opposed to my direct reports– in service to having context for what’s going on in the company and then being able to help people understand everything that I understand.”

 On the management class he teaches at Twitter:

“It actually started when one of my engineers–a couple of years ago–approached me and said, ‘Hey, I just switched teams and my former manager had one-on-one meetings with me every week.  And my new manager doesn’t believe in one-on-ones.  So what should we be doing?  What’s the right way to do this at Twitter?’ Funny thing is, once it was one of those examples where you hear this and then you start seeing examples across the company of the inconsistent ways people are managing based on either the success biases they brought from the company they came from, where we all did it that way. Or they were just promoted to manager here and, ‘I’m doing it the way my manager did before, not because it’s necessarily right or wrong.’ So, I set about creating this course, and it’s a six-hour course now, that is essentially how I want you to manage at Twitter and what I believe is important and how I want you to lead.”

On whether Twitter’s organizational chart still needs to be untangled:

 “I don’t think of it that way.  I feel like we’re constantly looking to clarify the organization as we grow.  So, as you expand and you’re in hypergrowth, you’re obviously adding to the organization in lots of different ways and you start to have these additional complexities of you’ve got an international organization now. So, you may have– a matrixed organization where– the head of an international office– is not the person who the communications in– person in that office reports to directly, but they’re all sort of matrixed into the head of that office.  And as you grow and start to build things like international regions, et cetera, I think you’re constantly looking to clarify the organization and simplify the organization.”

On his relationship with Jack Dorsey:

 “Jack is one of the most forthright communicators I’ve ever had the good fortunate to work with.  And, in fact, I have been in a meeting with him where there was a particularly difficult piece of news to be communicated which he handled simply and elegantly you know in a high-tension environment. I think Jack would agree in this case, that I’m much more an extrovert and he’s much more of an introvert.  But the two of us have a great relationship and I think we’ve found the right way to work together and make sure we’re spending a lot of time together.”

 On the importance of 1 billion users:

“Our user growth drives everything.  As I think about the service and what we’re trying to accomplish and why we have to achieve what we have to achieve, it’s entirely in service to reach every person on the planet.  All of the benefits of the business and growing the business and extending the platform are derived from that.”

On competition with Facebook:

“We have a really clear notion of where we want to go as a company and with the product.  In fact I should say ‘products’ now as we’ve got– Vine in the market as well.  We’ve acquired Crashalytics and other things that we’re doing. So, we have a very specific, clear, and shared understanding of where we’re taking those things.  And I think it’s fair to say that we don’t let other companies’ decisions affect the way we think about where we’re going.  Obviously, you have to understand the competitive landscape and know what other people are doing in the space so that you can be thoughtful about whether you need to move faster on something or prioritize this over that in a particular quarter.  But in the general scheme of things, in the overall vision of where we’re going, we don’t let those other things change our notion of what we’re trying to be.”

 On the potential of a Twitter IPO:

“I’ll tell you this.  And I know it’s going to sound like a broken record.  But, we feel like we’re building the global town square.  And when we talk about we just had an all-hands meeting this morning and we talked about the fact that we’re building this global town square.  And we see every day more and more examples from around the world of how Twitter is changing the way people live, how they communicate and how we interact in real time in public in a direct multidirectional, unfiltered, conversational way.  And as long as we deliver the kinds of capabilities in the product that fulfill that obligation to building the global town square, all the other things that we want  to do as a business will take care of themselves. We are solely focused on building this global town square.  And all the benefits of the business and the way we think about growing the business will fall from that.”

 On his birthday wish for Twitter:

“My Birthday wish for Twitter is that we will look back on seven as, ‘Wow.  Remember when we were only seven and the company was just getting started?’  That’s my wish for the company.”

 On what it’s like to be the CEO of Twitter:

“I have the best job in the world.  I couldn’t be happier. There is nothing else I’d rather be doing.”

Interview courtesy BLOOMBERG WEST

Vine allows unlimited uploads and it’s free.  You can instantly post videos on Vine, then share to Twitter and Facebook. The app lets you find, follow, and interact with people close to you.  Explore trending posts, featured hashtags and editor’s picks. You don’t need a Twitter account to use Vine (but signing up is a little quicker if you do!).

“Like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine inspires creativity,” wrote Michael Sippey, Twitter’s vice president of product.

Vine is also a stand-alone app ( social network) that lets you view your friends’ videos in a news feed within the app.

Short clips are recorded via a simple take or multiple shots, then turned into a shareable digital flipbook. There is no play/pause button attached, the looping video can be stopped by clicking on it before it becomes annoying.

You can also search for people on Vine, or invite them via text or email. To get started, tap the menu button in the top left corner, select “Profile”, and then tap the button with two people on it in the top right corner.

Twitter acquired Vine Labs in October last year.

Stefan Filip, Engineer, Growth Team said:

You can email a Tweet to anyone, whether they use Twitter or not, right from your Twitter stream or from the details view of any Tweet. Just click on the “More” icon next to the reply, retweet and favorite buttons in order to email a Tweet to anyone you know. You can add your own comment, and we’ll send an email with your comment and the Tweet together. Just like that.

To e-mail a tweet to someone, go to the details of the tweet and click on the “More” icon next to the reply, retweet and favorite buttons. A little box will pop up to let you add a message and your recipient’s e-mail. Then hit send.

Happy tweeting!!

This is what’s new:

• Expanded Tweets: Content previews from partner sites like YouTube, MLB, CSPAN, and more. Example “when you tap a Tweet linking to a Kickstarter project, for example, you can play its video directly from the Tweet details view in your app.” You can also read article summaries when you tap Tweets linking to sources like The Atlantic or play videos or view images when you expand Tweets linking to websites like Etsy and Vimeo.
• Events: events let you view the best tweets and photos for live events like the World Series, Super Bowl, NASCAR races, and more.
• Easier search: Twitter has made improvements to its search so now when you type in the search bar it will attempt to auto complete you query.
• Push Notifications: Now the official app lets you get push notifications on your device for a specific account you follow. “Turn on push notifications for Tweets for any user via the action button on their profile, and edit these notifications in your account settings on your device.”

Dasient team announced in a blog post and said “The Dasient team is excited to announce that we have been acquired by Twitter! Effective immediately, we will be bringing our technology, tools, and team to the revenue engineering team at Twitter.”

They further stated that “By joining Twitter, Dasient will be able to apply its technology and team to the world’s largest real-time information network. As part of this merger, Dasient is winding down its business and is no longer able to accept new customers.

Secuirty is a huge concern for Twitter. When your Twitter account is compromised and begin sending unwanted tweets or spammy Messages, that means your Twitter password has been compromised.

To stay safe from hackers, maintain a strong, secure password.By using a customized version of your memorable but difficult-to-crack password, you keep yourself much safer. Such passwords can and should include capital and lowercase letters alike, punctuations and numbers.

Most Web traffic uses the HTTP protocol, which passes data back and forth from your computer to the Web server unencrypted. To use the HTTP protocol:

Log in to Twitter’s website, click on your username at the upper right, and choose Settings. At the bottom of the account tab, verify that Always Use HTTPS is checked and click Save.

What happens to Summify?

The Summify Team said: We will be disabling new account registrations immediately and we will also be removing some features. We will keep the email summaries for a few more weeks, but at some point we will shut down the current Summify product. In the meantime, if you’re a user of Summify you’ll still receive your summaries, just like before.

Starting today, Summify has disabled new account registrations and some features. Summaries can no longer be public and profile pages and influence pages are out of service.

The Team will be joining Twitter’s Growth team and will continue to explore ways to help people connect and engage with relevant, timely news. They will be moving down to San Francisco and will work out of the Twitter office.

Ori Allon, Director of Engineering, Twitter (former Founder & CEO of Julpan) in a statement to announce the acquisition said: I am very proud to announce that Julpan has been acquired by Twitter. We founded Julpan more than a year ago. In that time we’ve created innovative, early-alpha-stage search technology that analyzes social activity across the Web to deliver fresh and relevant content to users. We look forward to joining forces with Twitter’s engineering team to explore how we can best integrate and optimize Julpan’s innovations.

This acquisition is meant to help Twitter keep the value of search inside its own properties.