Twitter has updated its music discovery app Twitter #music, adding new discovery tools. Version 1.2 of the app gives Twitter the ability to scan your iPhone’s music library in order to suggest artists that you might be interested in. In addition, if you have tweeted about an artist, Twitter will also suggest their work to you. The update also lets you listen to an artist’s top tracks, similar artists, as well as artists that your favorite artist follows on Twitter.

The app is also now available in a number of different languages including French, Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish and Dutch.

Twitter launched the app back in April. The app identifies artists and tracks based on how often they are tweeted about to help music fans discover new tracks. Tapping into Spotify and Rdio, the app lets you play

Spindle, the company specializing in social search, has been purchased by Twitter.

While the app is only available in select cities, they are “building the discovery engine for the social web.” The company posted this short statement:

By joining forces with Twitter, we can do so much more to help you find interesting, timely, and useful information about what’s happening around you. The Spindle team will be relocating and joining the Twitter team in San Francisco. As part of this change, we’ll be sunsetting the Spindle service today to focus on these new and exciting opportunities. To our users, friends, families, investors, advisors, and everyone else: thank you for your support. It’s been an incredible journey and we couldn’t have gotten here without you.

Have you noticed a stream of diet-related tweets on Twitter lately?

You can help Twitter get read of these fake accounts with a single click. Twitter will block the fake account so they cannot follow or reply to your account. Simply visit the Twitter feed, click the “person icon” (image embedded above) and choose the “Report X for Spam” option. Twitter shared more advice about spam accounts:

Here are some common tactics that spam accounts often use: Posting harmful links (including links to phishing or malware sites). Aggressive following behavior (mass following and mass un-following for attention). Abusing the @reply or @mention function to post unwanted messages to users. Creating multiple accounts (either manually or using automated tools). Posting repeatedly to trending topics to try to grab attention.  Repeatedly posting duplicate updates. Posting links with unrelated tweets.

Twitter and Portland’s data visualizers Vizify is teaming up to help you attract more followers with a highlight reel dubbed #FollowMe. Each video comprises of highlights of your Twitter hsitory including photos, vines, and stats documenting your savvy microblogging skill – like who you interact with and when you tweet the most.

Unlike Vine, #FollowMe doesn’t have a time limit. You can even add music from Rumblefish’s library of 1 million songs as you cut and edit the video to your heart’s desire. Once you’re done, embed them into your tweets to attract more followers.
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At Mediabistro’s AllTwitter Marketing Conference, NASA’s social media manager said that Twitter has created a once-in-a-lifetime change in the way the space agency communicates with the world.

SocialTimes editor Devon Glenn shared tips from the presentation on today’s edition of the Morning Media Menu. She also talked about a special font to help people with dyslexia read online and how Pinterest has become one of the most viral social networks.

Press play below to listen on SoundCloud. The show was hosted by GalleyCat editor Jason Boog. Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Daily Newsfeed via email. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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Twitter’s popular video sharing app Vine is now available for Android.

The app, which lets users make 6 second videos and share them to their social networks, launched for iOS devices this past January. Since then, the app has more than 13 million users.

The new Android app has most of the features of the iOS app — users can create and share short looped videos to Vine or Twitter, as well as follow friends and check out the videos of other makers.

The Android and iOS apps are not identical. For example, the Android app has a unique zoom feature that has yet to hit iOS. Here is more from the Twitter blog:

Over the coming weeks, you’ll see frequent updates with new features –– including front-facing camera, search, mentions and hashtags, and the ability to share to Facebook –– as well as bug fixes and performance improvements. Of course, this is only the beginning –– we have exciting plans for features that could exist only on Android.

Twitter is a great place to share your thoughts and idea and for those of you that want to save your tweets page for posterity, there are a number of companies that will let you create print books out of your Twitter pages.

We’ve put together a list of five of these companies that will print out your favorite tweets, Twit pics and Twitter conversations, so that you can save them as a book. Below find our list of companies with descriptions about what their services do and a link back to their sites.

5 Tools That Will Turn Your Twitter Page Into A Book

1. Twournal: “Twournal allows you to create, buy and sell twitter books printed from your tweets. All Twournals have color covers, can include replies and photos from services such as Twitpic and Yfrog in color or black and white. You can choose a custom picture for your front cover. Select which tweets you want to start and end at. And you can add a dedication message to appear after your title.” Read more

Mother’s Day is Sunday and the least you should do is call your mother - said Twitter. The social media site issued a witty public service announcement boasting about Twitter’s sharing platform quickly after Google’s Mother’s Day tribute this week.

Hopefully moms everywhere will enjoy breakfast in bed, a steady stream of thank-you’s and family fun. While moms are enjoying these and many other Mother’s Day traditions, it’s a safe bet they’ll also sneak a peek at Twitter. After all, moms (and moms-to-be) are doing everything from securing Twitter accounts for their babies to live-tweeting their C-sections to sharing funny motherhood experiences.

But even as much as moms love Twitter, we know that mom loves you the most.

While Google opted for a sweet, syrupy promotion for Google Plus, Twitter opted to tell users that social media doesn’t replace everything. That said, if you don’t have time to visit your Mom this Sunday, video hangouts with her on Google Plus is pretty great every day. Click here to compare the two ads. Read more

Tweetwall, a company that lets organizations project a live Twitter feed on a wall for clients like CNN, eBay and Microsoft, has launched a new iPad app that will allow anyone to create their own “tweetwall.”

The Tweetwall iPad app uses Apple’s Digital AV adapter or AirPlay to allow you to display content from your event on a TV or through a projector.

Here is more from the app’s listing in iTunes: “To make your life just a bit easier, the iPad app supports geolocation allowing you to be just one tap away from viewing your Tweetwall (you need to provide the venue address during the setup for your Tweetwall). You can also search for events.” (Via TechCrunch).

The world’s hunkiest mutant, Hugh Jackman, will be appearing on Twitter this Thursday to please his legion of female fans (myself included).  Jackman will be responding via videos to questions sent to @RealHughJackman or @WolverineMovie in order to promote his latest movie, The Wolverine,  which appears in theaters on July 26.

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