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"Twitter's #Music app made some noise when it first arrived in April, but it has largely gone quiet. The company is taking another stab at the effort, this time with a Spotify app that surfaces music popular on Twitter.\r\n\r\nMuch like the Web interface on Twitter's #Music site, the Spotify app features sections for Superstars, Popular, Emerging, Unearthed and Hunted. Those first three categories are self-explanatory, but Unearthed finds &amp;quot;hidden talent found in the tweets&amp;quot; and Hunted shows music that's popular on blogs.\u00A0Each of the categories can be added to Spotify as a playlist.\r\n\r\nThe #NowPlaying feature is missing from the app, presumably because it would require authorizing your own Twitter account from within Spotify.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe app also includes featured genres: Alternative, Country, Dance, Electronic, Folk, Hip Hop, Metal, Pop, RnB and Rock, but it's not clear whether all of these lists have been generated from Twitter data.\r\n\r\nAs you'd expect, Twitter prominently displays artists' @usernames throughout the app and includes links to view on Twitter.com.\r\n\r\nThis doesn't mean that Twitter has given up on its dedicated #Music app for iOS. Last week, the app\u00A0got an update\u00A0that added the ability to interact with tweets located within the #NowPlaying section, following a significant update that appeared in August.\r\n\r\nTwitter's new Spotify app plays to its strengths. I'm much more likely to make use of #Music from within Spotify than as a standalone app or website.\u00A0Twitter has plenty of data that can be helpful, but that information will work best in cooperation with dedicated music services. In this sense, #Music could thrive as a powerful music data platform, similar to The Echo Nest, that\u00A0provides recommendations and discovery for consumer streaming services.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Twitter #Music [Spotify]\r\n\r\nImage credit: AFP / Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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