Twitter and Billboard partner to share trending tracks

After killing its #Music service, Twitter is taking another stab at its music strategy by announcing a partnership with music news magazine Billboard. The companies have introduced a Billboard Twitter Real-Time Chart, meant to monitor music conversation in the U.S. and create a “social soundtrack” of popular music trends. The chart will also be put up on Billboard.com so users can see the conversation happening on Twitter. You can follow @Billboard and @TwitterMusic to get regular updates on trending songs and popular artists as well.

Source: ReadWrite

Twitter adds photo tagging, multiple photo upload on iPhone and Android apps

Twitter is finally taking its cues from the likes of Instagram and Facebook by adding photo tagging and multiple photo uploads to its iPhone and Android apps. You can now tag up to 10 people in any photo. A “Who’s in this photo?” can now be seen on the compose screen. You can also upload up to four photos at once.

Tagging Twitter users on your photo also helps free up some space in your tweets. You can customize privacy options and notifications regarding who can tag you in the Settings page of your Android device or iPhone d or on the web.

Twitter aims to drive engagement with view counts

Twitter is known to conduct trials of new features that may or may not be made available publicly. The latest experiment is adding view counts to tweets to let you know how many people saw a particular tweet. This will come in handy for businesses who want to see if their tweets are getting as much mileage as they assume. Advertisers were given first access to this but now it has gone live to other users. Twitter hasn’t indicated if they plan to roll this out for the entire user base.

Source: Ubergizmo

Twitter kills #Music app

Twitter has officially pulled the plug on its #Music app and has pulled out the app from the App Store yesterday. The app will stop working on April 18. #Music was Twitter’s attempt to build conversations around music and help users discover new music on the social network. Unfortunately, it wasn’t able to lure listeners away from other music apps out on the market. The company has said it is looking to develop “new ways” to incorporate music into Twitter.

Later this afternoon, we will be removing Twitter #music from the App Store. If you have the app, it will continue to work until April 18.

— Twitter Music (@TwitterMusic) March 21, 2014

Source: The Verge