Social networking site Twitter plans to launch a new music app recently

Absrtact: According to foreign media reports, social networking site Twitter plans to launch a new music application to help users find more songs. In Friday, the company released a publicity page about the service, but did not disclose the specific functions of the online. Twitter's new service

According to foreign media reports, social networking site Twitter plans to launch a new music application to help users find more songs. In Friday, the company released a publicity page about the service, but did not disclose the specific functions of the online.

Twitter's new service will take advantage of the music habits of the users ' friends and contacts to recommend them to the consumer. For Twitter, which has more than 200 million users, this is another way to maintain user viscosity.

In Friday, Twitter posted a page with the company's bird logo, the label "#music", and a login button. After clicking the button, the page prompts the user, and a popular music application accesses the user account permissions. The description on the page changes slightly on the same day, but overall it introduces an application feature that scans users ' Twitter messages, updates their personal information, and posts automatically. This means that the feature will alert the user to the music the friend is listening to.

Another clue has to do with Twitter's acquisition of the "we Are hunted" company. Twitter confirmed in Thursday that it had bought the music referral service.

Shavone Charles, a Twitter spokeswoman, declined to answer questions about the new service, but advised reporters to refer to a statement posted on the "We Are hunted" website. The statement said the music recommendation Service's website was about to close and employees would join Twitter.

Recommendations based on social media communication are becoming commonplace, with many network music service providers offering similar functionality. Spotify can broadcast users ' playlists through Facebook. Twitter's huge user size is obviously a big advantage.

"Music is one of the hottest topics on Twitter," says Ted Cohen, a former record company executive Teide Cohn. "Cohen is now advising digital music companies. "Discovering songs is crucial to the growth of the music business, and the recommendation from reliable sources is important." ”

Technology blog AllThingsD reported that Twitter or the official launch of the service this weekend to catch up with the Kochira Music festival in the Southern California desert.

The website also points out that the Twitter service will initially be open only to "influential" celebrities. On the day of Friday, the Twitter page was once written, "invitation only".