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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 rhizome »

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.

They are never going to be everything for everyone as long as they hitch their fortunes to the old licensing regime, in which case this group is more of a trade organization for rate negotiations.

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

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Post by hkmurakami »

>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 with someone until we catch up to them, then shut them out" is fairly standard practice in the manufacturing/hardware companies in the past.)

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Post by suyash »

randomdrake wrote: post #5

Nice find, but I think it's a pretty big jump to say that because there's CSS rules for something that it will necessarily be in the final product.

True but it's a pretty good indicator. I'll put my money on it.

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

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Post by jechen »

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 even part of the core product at all). That being said, I hope they prove me wrong.
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