To say that Twitter Music is debuting today would be to discount the man hours Ryan Seacrest and other celebrities have spent assaulting their earholes with it. But, as sharedon Good Morning America, Twitter’s music service will debut today on the web and on the iPhone for the common man.
So what are we in for?
There’s not much to it, according to the initial reveal, or at least not much that would surprise you. Four screens help organise your music discovery and sharing: Popular, Emerging, Suggested, and #NowPlaying. Popular is what’s trending, Emerging reveals “hidden talent” — though it’s not at all clear how they become unhidden — Suggested gives you, well, suggestions based on whom you follow, and #NowPlaying reveals the terrible music choices the people you follow are making, in real-time.
Twitter Music will be a separate app on iOS, not folded into Twitter Prime. And on the web it will exist as four tabs. You can tweet songs out from the app, though, and go to the profiled of people you follow to see what they’re listening to. It’s still very much a Twitter experience, just very narrowly focused.
But where does that music come from? When you’re poking around at songs within the app, previews will be supplied by iTunes (because then you might buy them!). If you’re a Spotify or Rdio subscriber, though, you can log in to your account and listen to full tracks, assuming they’re available. That should cover most streaming music enthusiasts, and Twitter says it’s exploring other partners.
Presumably Twitter’s engine is built on that of We Are Hunted, a service that scoured the internet to find out what people were listening to until Twitter bought it recently. And if Ryan Seacrest and Ne-Yo and Moby are to be relied upon (and you should, with your life), it’s been pretty effective so far:
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