#Music

#Music is Twitters venture into the music side of social media. The new app which was launched this week lets the user delve into the music that is popular on twitter and also what their friends are listening to.

The app lets you instantly listen to a song from the artist inside the app through your spotify, itunes or Rdio. The app has four parts to it. Firstly, the Twitter Charts, this is where the most popular music lives. However, in terms of discovering music, this part is useless as its looks like a rundown of the top 40. The emerging chart is much more useful for people looking to increase their musical knowledge which gives you a chart of new music based on who you follow on twitter. There is also a suggested tab but this is too similar to the emerging chart and therefore not as good. Also you can listen to tracks by artists you already follow in the final tab.

So what are Paddy's thoughts on this app. Well, the emerging chart is very good and the other tabs to serve a purpose. However, this is only as enjoyable with a Spotify subscription and therefore not everyone can use it. Will this be a new part of social media or will it just be another fad. We will just have to wait and see.