The app, which jumped to number six in the App Store's rankings after its launch, slid down to 1,672 in Onavo's rankings last August.
It will be phased
out in the near future, according to sources close to Twitter who spoke to All Things
Digital.
Twitter #Music
began its decline in popularity as project leader Kevin Thau abandoned the app
after being posted as Chief Operating Officer to Jelly, Twitter founder Biz
Stone’s new stealth startup.
It has never been
made available for Android phones, which may have contributed to its poor
success, and does not offer as many services as apps such as Spotify - which
lets the user play unlimited ad-support music free of charge.
Twitter #Music
plays clips of music from existing services such as iTunes and identifies the
musicians users follow on Twitter, automatically creating a playlist of music
samples from those artists which can be played within the app.
Users who want to
play full tracks have to sign in through a premium Spotify or Rdio account, but
it allows users to view music listened to by people they are following with the
hashtag #nowplaying.
Twitter is now
likely to further its cross-platform strategy of partnering with other
companies and brands on music-related deals.
Earlier this week it was reported the company is planning to
launch a standalone direct-messaging application to rival popular apps such as
WhatsApp and Snapchat.
It would be part
of a broader revamp of Twitter's direct-messaging product, which also includes
the addition of a new setting that allows users to send and receive direct
messages from others without needing to mutually follow one another.
Source;Telegraph
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