Remember Twitter’s #music app for the iPhone? No? Well you’re not alone. The app has only been around since April and it has already faded into the App Store’s deep recess of obscurity. It hasn’t stayed on any of the top charts while apps like Spotify and Rdio continue to gain in popularity.
But Twitter isn’t giving up just yet. Today an update was released to #music that brings more tools for discovering music, including the ability to scan an iPhone’s music library.
You couldn’t control hardly anything about how #music discovered new tunes before. Twitter added genre selection in a previous update, but the ability to curate beyond the app’s own algorithms was vastly limited. Now you can listen to the top tracks from artists you follow, similar artists, and “the artists that your favorite artist follows on Twitter” Super meta, we know.
The app can now scan an iPhone’s music library to make more tailored recommendations. While most music services tend to balance curation and random discovery, Twitter is still betting heavily on the idea that people want personalized stations based on who they follow. There’s more to a good music streaming service than that, as Spotify and others have proved.
Twitter’s #music is doing its best to survive and stand out in a very crowded market. Today’s update will garner a little more attention, and then everyone will probably forget again.
Source: App Store
