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Twitter has announced today a brand new service they’ll be offering through the web and in their brand new iOS-only app: Twitter #Music! This environment will be one in which Twitter will be showing off music shared by artists around the world using algorithms that get the rhythm straight to your face from your phone or desktop computer. Unfortunately it appears that Android users are going to be left out – at first.

The announcement was made on ABC’s Good Morning America, of all places, while up until now Twitter #Music has been virally teased by music celebrities and odds-and-ends celebrity personalities. All on Twitter, of course. You’ll find this launch to be one made by Twitter to reach the masses, not just the early adopter crowds apps are normally advertised to.

“The songs on Twitter #music currently come from three sources: iTunes, Spotify or Rdio. By default, you will hear previews from iTunes when exploring music in the app. Subscribers to Rdio and Spotify can log in to their accounts to enjoy full tracks that are available in those respective catalogs. We will continue to explore and add other music service providers.” – Twitter

While the final app is not yet available to users, we’re expecting a full launch by the end of the day – stay tuned to our Twitter tag portal all day until the big blast happens!

According to the Twitter bits and pieces released on the television show today, there will be several ways you’ll be able to get into the mix. While for the most part this launch will surround the iOS app and desktop connections, you’ll still be able to get to listen to music on your Android, Windows Phone, or BlackBerry device by tapping links in Twitter and seeing (and more importantly, listening) the action in your mobile web browser.

This release should take the success Twitter has seen in their release of Vine earlier this year. While Twitter remains solidly a text-friendly app in and of itself, the Twitter brand will continue to expand through apps such as this. Have a peek at the tiny preview images released by ABC News thus far above and below and, again, stay tuned for more right here on SlashGear!

Twitter Music app launches today: iPhone first is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Twitter unveiled its new music app today. As expected, it’s a music discovery service that helps you find new music based on what’s popular, what your friends are listening to and (surprise!) what’s trending on Twitter. The songs themselves are …

It seems that Twitter has a big announcement planned later today as television show, Good Morning America, has announced via its Twitter account that the social media company will be making an appearance on the show to make an announcement. They emphasized the word “big”, suggesting that this could be a major announcement for Twitter and we’re wondering what it could be. CNET is speculating that this announcement could be about Twitter Music, a music discovery service that Twitter could be launching themselves, especially after the confirmation that they had acquired another music discovery service We Are Hunted.

Twitter has since done a soft launch of its music website, but at the time of launching, no features were immediately available, suggesting that this announcement would basically unlock the features for the masses. With Twitter being a great way to get news updates and with bands already promoting themselves, music discovery might not be such a bad idea after all. Either way check back with us later in the day to see what this big announcement could be.

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Leave it to Twitter to make announcements in a way that is, shall we say, atypical in nature. Good Morning America just sent out a tweet stating that Twitter will be making a “BIG” announcement tomorrow morning on the show. Twitter hasn’t made any announcement on its own account, and while we have no idea what they’re going to announce, there are a couple of possibilities.

Of course, Twitter is no stranger to making announcements on a talk show, having done so with its design refresh on The Today Show in 2012, and now apparently following that trend tomorrow on ABC. There’s no mention – not even a hint – about what this BIG announcement could be, but what comes first to mind is Twitter Music, which is all but official.

On April 12, we saw music.twitter.com come alive, confirming what have been long-standing rumors about the impending service. Several celebrities have been bantering about the service, no doubt generating pre-release buzz to get people aware and excited. Such an announcement would be a strong bet for what Twitter has in store tomorrow.

On the other hand, sources have said that Twitter is in talks with Viacom and NBCUniversal about a partnership for offering video content and advertisements on the microblogging service. According to those sources, one or more deals could be revealed by the middle of next month, and while that’s still a few weeks away, it’s possible we’ll be hearing something along this line tomorrow.

[via Twitter]

Twitter to make “big” announcement on Good Morning America tomorrow is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This week the folks at Twitter have announced the first wave of keyword targeting in timelines – available to advertisers for every place that Twitter Ads are supported. You’ll be working in all languages and in every single Twitter market across the advertising universe with targeted ads. In this case it means that if someone tweets about something they enjoy, an advertisement can now see that and target itself based on the subject matter.

If you’re tweeting about an ice cold glass of Surge soda, you’ll quite likely be seeing an advertisement for Surge soon after. With this update by Twitter, Twitter will be allowing context to play a much bigger part in your everyday advertising adventures. The good news for regular users is that they’ll not see any discernible difference in the amount of advertisements that are popping up.

“Users won’t see any difference in their use of Twitter — we’re not showing ads more frequently in timelines, and users can still dismiss Promoted Tweets they don’t find relevant. In fact, we believe users’ experiences with ads will improve as a result of this feature as they see more relevant Promoted Tweets.” – Twitter

According to Twitter, it appears that advertisers that’ve been using the service thus far in test runs have seen much better engagement when their ads are targeted specifically. Users were “significantly more likely to engage” with these new Promoted Tweets when using keyword targeting then with any other form of Twitter targeting in timelines.

The image above is the screen advertisers will be seeing from this point out when they want to target advertisements based on keywords in your timeline. Make sure you tweet a bunch about your favorite kinds of foods and services!

Twitter gets creepier with keyword-targeted ads is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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