Twitter has finally unveiled Twitter Music to the public after launching the music discovery app to a selected celebrities last week. Twitter #Music is a an iOS and web app for discovering, following and listening to artists that draws its intelligence from Twitter’s own user activity data.
# 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.
