Twitter Music

Yesterday Twitter unveiled a new application which allows users to explore and discover new music and artists. The app, called #Music, is designed to give Twitter users ideas and recommendations based on the their twitter followers they have subscribed to. There is also links up with Spotify, ITunes and Rdio, which give the users an opportunity to 'tweet' about the music they're listening to and for followers to listen with them.

The design of the site is very visual, with segments broken up into each song/artist with their images and name of track. The use of black as a primary creates a stylish and slick interface, with users being drawn towards each image used. It is simple enough to find out the twitter account of an artist and to play the song preview off of ITunes, just by clicking on the image chosen.

One thing I did find was the lack of explanation of the site before I began using it. Although some may not find it essential, the purpose was not really explained. For example, I had to research into other articles to explain how to "tweet" what I was playing. I also think that it because this is a separate site to Twitter itself, it may suffer to get users logging on and using it as much as the actual social networking site.