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  Twitter #Music Head Jumps Ship a Week After App's Launch

  April 25, 2013 – A week ago today, Twitter rolled out Twitter #music, its new music-recommendation app. (Here's how to use it.) Now, AllThingsD reports the person who spearheaded the project, Kevin Thau, has left the company. …
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  How to Use Twitter #Music

  April 18, 2013 – Today, Twitter finally rolled out its new music app, which is called Twitter #music. The company's ambitions are predictably grand, calling the app "a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter." As a streaming songs and discovery service, they are entering a crowded and growing field, one that leaves users with various similar options. …
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  Twitter's Music-Discovery App Has Happened

  April 18, 2013 – Last month came a report that Twitter would be launching a new music-discovery service. The app would incorporate four tabs: "Suggested," which recommends music based on users' Twitter following activity; "#NowPlaying," which shows songs tweeted with that hashtag by accounts a user follows; "Popular," which shows trending songs; and "Emerging," which shows rising acts. …
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  Twitter Is Getting Into the Music Discovery Business, Too

  March 14, 2013 – The latest twists in the rapidly changing online music streaming business come courtesy of Twitter and, separately, Spotify.Twitter has taken over We Are Hunted, a service for finding new music online, and plans to use that technology to build a mobile app, according to CNET, which cites an unnamed person familiar with the matter. …
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  Nicki Minaj Says Voice in Her Head Told Her to Quit Twitter

  April 20, 2012 – Not even a week has passed since a furious Nicki Minaj deleted her Twitter, but the MC has admitted she's considering reviving the account, which had 11 million followers when she yanked it. …
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  Welcome, Beyonce, to the World Wide Web

  April 5, 2012 – So, you've seen Beyoncé's Tumblr by now, right? The microblog launched this morning, along with two other cyber treats to complete the diva's online trifecta: a tweet (a tweet!) from her long-empty Twitter account and the launch of her official, hair-flipping website, which includes a fan community (the BeyHive, get it?) with some highly proprietary font-age going on. …
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  Fake Hoobastank Accidentally Verified on Twitter, Are Funnier Than Real Hoobastank

  March 20, 2012 – The world has unwittingly received a glimpse of an alternate reality where '00s rockers Hoobastank are social media geniuses. Imposters pretending to be 'Stank created an account that was accidentally verified by Twitter recently. …
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  Top 5 Twitterers of 2009

  December 31, 2009 – This was the year of Twitter. Millions (and millions) of people took to Twitter to record their daily lives in short blurbs of 140 characters or less -- including musicians like Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, DJ A-Trak, and Blink-182's Mark Hoppus. We kept track of them all, collecting the best, newsiest tweets of the week for our weekly Follow Friday feature. Here's a look back at the Top 5 Twitter events of the past year: 5. …
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  Q&A: Courtney Love Translated!

  September 10, 2009 – Talk about a gig that couldn't have existed at any other point in time. …
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• SPIN.com Tweets the Michael Jackson Memorial

  July 7, 2009 – Michael Jackson is being honored today with a star-studded tribute at Los Angeles' Staples Center. …
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