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Demi Lovato Unlocks Her Latest Tracks Based On The Number Of Tweets Each Amasses

Allison Stadd — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:30:18 +0000

Singer Demi Lovato’s millions of fans flocked to Twitter yesterday to declare their love for her – or, more specifically, her latest tracks.

The singer’s fourth studio album, Demi, isn’t set to drop until May 14.

But the singer challenged fans to unlock each song early online by tweeting its title as a hashtag, releasing each single on her website LovaticsSpeedUpTime.com after a certain amount of crowd-sourced excitement.

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Twitter Music App Tumbles Out Of Top Ten

Mary C. Long — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:30:55 +0000

Since Twitter Music launched 11 days ago, it has seen its share of hype – and popularity. But it appears its 15 minutes of fame are over.

Twitter Music is currently in a free fall right now, plummeting from its spot in the top ten to #117. Will it continue to drop?

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What The Jelly? Twitter’s Music Chief Departs For Co-founder’s Mystery Startup

Mary C. Long — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:00:55 +0000

Tech companies love to poach employees from each other. Twitter steals employees from Google with such frequency, one would think they had someone on the inside sourcing candidates!

So we guess Twitter doesn’t view it as too much of a big deal to lose it’s “music VP” to one of the Twitter co-founders, Biz Stone’s, new startup, Jelly. But this is the third person’s he’s brought on from the Twitters – will there be more?

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‘Twitter Music’ Launches For Select Users (Not You)

Mary C. Long — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:55:15 +0000

This is a dual announcement: An aqui-hire and an app development.

We told you Twitter was planning to launch its own music app – and now it has! Well, it kind of has. It will be made available to the unverified masses soon enough.

And this music app launch will be made possible by Twitter’s latest aqui-hire: We Are Hunted.

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Twitter Feud Set To Music Becomes ‘Financial Opera’

Mary C. Long — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:53 +0000

Ever see the President of a country and a nobel prize-winning economist duke it out on Twitter and think to yourself -“now THAT would make a great opera!”?

No?

And even if you did, who has the time to do such a thing? These guys.

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Help Twitter Make A Rockumentary At SXSW

Mary C. Long — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:15:10 +0000

If you’ll be attending South by Southwest (SXSW) this year? If so, you should plan to participate in creating this Rockumentary because you’ll kick yourself for it later if you don’t.

And if you don’t know what SXSW is, it’s a “unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies” – and it’s what everyone will be tweeting about from March 8-17.

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Musicians That #TakeCenterStage Can Win Up To $25k

Mary C. Long — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:30:54 +0000

Have a great song, but short on audience? This contest is for you.

Upload it and get enough votes and you can win the promotional opportunity of a lifetime.

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#BackGate Has Folks Talking About Glee Again – But Not In A Good Way

Mary C. Long — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:00:24 +0000

What would you do if you were a crafty songwriter who came up with a creative cover for a popular song and a TV show ripped you off?

If you were Jonathan Coulton, you’d tweet it out and shame that show for all it’s worth. Because unfortunately, outside of shaming Glee, Coulton may have little legal recourse.

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Grammys Launches A Twitter Chat Series With Female Music Stars

Allison Stadd — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:00:25 +0000

The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are just over six weeks away, and to drum up some anticipation, The Recording Academy has launched a Twitter chat series with major female music stars.

They’re calling it The Artist Interview Series, and using the hashtag #TheWorldIsListening.

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The Music Sharing Habits Of Twitter Users [INFOGRAPHIC]

Lauren Dugan — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:00:12 +0000

Twitter users are a music-loving bunch. Some of the most-followed users are musicians, like Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, all of whom have tens of millions of followers.

Social music service Serendip wanted to know just how much Twitter users loved their music, so they put together this infographic to find out.
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Blur Performing Two New Songs Live On Twitter

Mary C. Long — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:45:57 +0000

Do you love hearing new music first? If so, you’ll want to tune in to Twitter next week to catch Blur’s live performance of two brand new songs.

The only other way to get in on this “first” is to figure out which rooftop in London they’ll be singing them from (that’s the other cool “first” about this debut).
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