{"id":653101,"date":"2013-04-18T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=447731"},"modified":"2013-04-18T08:40:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T12:40:48","slug":"twitter-reimagines-apples-failed-ping-experiment-launches-twitter-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653101","title":{"rendered":"Twitter reimagines Apple\u2019s failed \u2018Ping\u2019 experiment, launches Twitter Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/18\/twitter-music-launch-details-447731\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/twitter-bird.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Twitter rethinks Apple&#039;s failed &#039;Ping&#039; experiment, launches Twitter Music\" title=\"Twitter Music\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Apple&#8217;s artist-driven music network &#8220;Ping&#8221; was\u00a0basically\u00a0dead on arrival, but <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a> thinks it has what it takes to make a successful social music service. The company on Thursday unveiled Twitter Music, the worst-kept secret in social networking. The service helps users discover music based on what their friends are listening to, along with recommendations from popular artists. &#8220;It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists,&#8221; Twitter said in a blog post. &#8220;It also brings artists\u2019 music-related Twitter activity front and center: go to their profiles to see which music artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists. And, of course, you can tweet songs right from the app.&#8221;\u00a0Twitter Music will be available on the web and on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a> at launch, but Twitter plans to expand it to other platforms moving forward.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/tJvFVj6ajso\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s artist-driven music network &#8220;Ping&#8221; was\u00a0basically\u00a0dead on arrival, but Twitter thinks it has what it takes to make a successful social music service. The company on Thursday unveiled Twitter Music, the worst-kept secret in social networking. The service helps users discover music based on what their friends are listening to, along with recommendations from popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}