Hasta La Gadget!

Hungry for the fruits of Twitter’s latest acquisition? According to AllThingsD, you won’t have to wait long. The usual unnamed sources have told the outlet that Twitter’s new music app is due out this Friday, April 12th. True to We Are Hunted’s roots, it’s said the app will focus on music discovery, suggesting tunes and artists based on various factors, including who you follow on a certain social network. Soundcloud, iTunes and Vevo will apparently do the heavy lifting when it comes to music and video playback, though — the app won’t be a digital music store. Twitter itself is mum on details at this point, but we’ll let you know if a little bird tells us anything.

Update: Twitter has now made a home for the new service, although we’ve not been able to sign in just yet. We’re guessing that ‘go live’ switch will be flipped later today.

Update 2: In the applications section of your Twitter account, should you choose to allow #music access, you’ll notice a blurb describing the application as, “Trending Music Web by [blank]” and a note detailing it as, “the web version of the trending music app.” Well, look at that!

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Is the Ukraine hooked on Game of Thrones? What’s Kenya’s favorite Justin Bieber song? Thankfully, those questions (and more) may finally be answered, with the expansion of Twitter’s Trends offering. The list of hot topics is coming to 160 new locations, including, for the first time, Belgium, Greece, Kenya, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and Ukraine. The list also includes 130+ cities located in countries that already have trending representations. Interested parties can switch locations in the Trends sidebar on Twitter’s homepage.

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It was just last week when Microsoft’s creative director Adam Orth took to Twitter to give his personal opinions on the debate of having devices that are always connected to the Internet. His barrage of tweets resulted in many people predicting the next Xbox would require this constant Internet connection, which after the trouble Diablo III had and SimCity, caused quite the uproar in the gaming community. The results of which may have caused Orth’s early dismissal from Microsoft.

The news of Orth no longer working for Microsoft comes from Game Informer as their sources close to the matter have revealed he allegedly resigned soon after his series of tweets last week. It’s still unknown at this time if Orth’s resignation was voluntary or forced, but considering the timing of his leaving Microsoft, we would have to assume it was the latter. (more…)

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We think it’s safe to say tensions are high right about now in regards to what’s going on in North Korea these days. We recently saw Anonymous attempt to take matters into their own hands, but it looks like their efforts did nothing to curb North Korea’s efforts into launching a nuclear attack. It would seem they’re not the only ones who misfired as the Japanese city of Yokohama mistakingly tweeted out a message saying North Korea had launched a missile.

“North Korea has launched a missile” was published on @yokohama_saigai at around noon local time and stayed up there for its 40,000 followers to read for nearly 20 minutes. City officials realized the mistake once they received calls from local followers who were worried about its message, to which officials proceeded to delete the message and issued an apology. (more…)

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After first releasing back in January, Twitter’s popular, yet controversial social app Vine is now at the top of the free app chart in the iTunes App Store. The app has slowly been making its way to the top of the charts, but after not being well-received by some users due to the app’s porn problem, Vine is now sitting pretty at number one.

This marks the first time that Vine has hit the number one spot in the iTunes App Store, and frankly we’re surprised that it took this long, even despite app’s controversy. Vine’s co-founder and creative director, Rus Yusupov, tweeted the announcement today with a sort of wise-guy attitude, saying “Hey guys, remember that time we made the No. 1 most popular app in the world?”

The app’s controversy stems from an issue that saw adult content being posted on the service, without a 17+ age warning. Of course, this is against Apple’s terms of service for the iTunes App Store, so Vine was required to tack on an age warning. However, that didn’t stop Apple from removing the app from its list of Editor’s Choice apps for the week.

Vine is available for free on iOS devices, but it’s mysteriously missing on Android. While it’s been reported that the company was looking for Android developers, we have yet to hear anything about an Android version of the app making its way to Google Play, but it could be anytime soon, as an Android version would surely take off.

Vine becomes top free app in iTunes App Store is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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