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Twitter Music will integrate Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube

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Re: Twitter Music will integrate Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube

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Post by Splendor »

jechen wrote: post #9

Do we really need another music app? How many of us are (or planning to) use Twitter for music discovery? For the average consumer, Spotify has just about everything for anyone. For the avid listener, there are hundreds of quality music blogs dedicated every niche out there. It seems like Twitter decided they wanted a slice of the pie- I fail to see how this could possibly fit into my use case for Twitter (if it's ev…

I use Spotify as my primary music listening service and their music discovery is terrible. I'll gladly listen to Spotify through Twitter if it means better charts of new music, popular music, etc.

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Post by astalwick »

For what it's worth, I hope that twitter is able to put something interesting out there. They bought up wearehunted, which was a genuinely slick site - excellent trending music charts.

I'm a little concerned that they'll try too hard to 'integrate' it with twitter. I'm not that interested in hearing the music that the people I follow on twitter listen to, nor am I interested in reading about how good a musician's latte tasted this morning. It seems to me that twitter and music are somewhat separate.

(Full disclosure: I work for https://wavo.me , which is a social network for music).

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Post by onedev »

Splendor wrote: post #11
jechen wrote: post #9

Do we really need another music app? How many of us are (or planning to) use Twitter for music discovery? For the average consumer, Spotify has just about everything for anyone. For the avid listener, there are hundreds of quality music blogs dedicated every niche out there. It seems like Twitter decided they wanted a slice of the pie- I fail to see how this could possibly fit into my use case for Twitter (if it's ev…

I use Spotify as my primary music listening service and their music discovery is terrible. I'll gladly listen to Spotify through Twitter if it means better charts of new music, popular music, etc.

Use Spotify for music library management and access across all platforms. Use Pandora for music discovery.

Problem solved!

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Post by jonathanjaeger »

I'm probably an outlier in that I actively look for music on YouTube, SoundCloud, ex.fm, etc. and prefer it not given to me via playlists or channels on Pandora or Spotify. That being said, as long as the music experience on Twitter doesn't detract from Twitter's main use, I can certainly see the benefit of well-executed embeds from these various music platforms.

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Post by pokoleo »

[deleted] wrote: post #15
mehrzad wrote: post #2

But not Last.fm? I hope that's not true. Honestly slightly annoyed that each of these social media companies want to become everything for everyone.

[deleted]

We Are Hunted was acquired by twitter, and allowed you to stream to last.fm.

Re: Twitter Music will integrate Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube

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Post by josh2600 »

hkmurakami wrote: post #7

>Twitter Music will integrate Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube It will then proceed to eliminate integration one by one as Twitter Music proper gains traction and mindshare. Unfortunately this is going to be the consensus attitude towards anything Twitter & 3rd party. We just have to look at things with suspicion and cynicism. Call it mental-self-defense if you will. (Come to think of it, "partner…

I would normally agree with you, but I think you're failing to make a distinction here.

We, the peasants, get a different level of access to Twitter than say Google or iTunes might. There's no chance that Twitter can afford to cut off access to iTunes as it scales because iTunes is much bigger than Twitter.

Whereas Twitter can afford to bully the small companies of the world, they cannot bully Apple or Google.

In short, using Twitter API's is suicide. Partnering with Twitter could still foster some potential profit.

Re: Twitter Music will integrate Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube

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Post by hkmurakami »

josh2600 wrote: post #19
hkmurakami wrote: post #7

>Twitter Music will integrate Spotify, Rdio, iTunes, Soundcloud, Vevo and Youtube It will then proceed to eliminate integration one by one as Twitter Music proper gains traction and mindshare. Unfortunately this is going to be the consensus attitude towards anything Twitter & 3rd party. We just have to look at things with suspicion and cynicism. Call it mental-self-defense if you will. (Come to think of it, "partner…

I would normally agree with you, but I think you're failing to make a distinction here. We, the peasants, get a different level of access to Twitter than say Google or iTunes might. There's no chance that Twitter can afford to cut off access to iTunes as it scales because iTunes is much bigger than Twitter. Whereas Twitter can afford to bully the small companies of the world, they cannot bully Apple or Google. In sho…

Agreed with you overall. Just one caveat.

>In short, using Twitter API's is suicide. Partnering with Twitter could still foster some potential profit.

If you're smaller than Twitter, be somewhat wary of what might happen to said partnership in the future. Make sure you don't become obsolete in Twitter's eyes.

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