Spotify releases sharing on Twitter feature

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

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Here’s a short item: Spotify has announced a new feature allowing users to share the music they are listening to on Twitter. This sounds like it could threaten the likes of Blip.fm among others, which have plenty of Twitter integration, but let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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  • http://www.calvinrobinson.co.uk/ Calvin Robinson

    Would be nice to have these features as you hover-over songs. Right-click menus are clumsy.

    Great feature to have though, never-the-less.

  • Mike

    Mike Butcher listens to ‘Rage Against the Machine’… who’d have guessed!?!?!?

  • http://www.twitter.com/julesmorgan Jules Morgan

    Nah – he was actually listening to Britney but realised he’d get buried if he used a screen of that.

  • http://andrew.chalkley.org Andrew Chalkley

    I did it today with a playlist. I didn’t realise it was new…I didn’t download an update either

  • http://www.majorgrooves.co.uk Steven

    Spotify checks for updates every time it opens. I usually don’t notice when it does an update.

  • http://www.ukstevieb.com/2009/08/27/steviebs-shared-items-august-27-2009/ StevieB’s Shared Items – August 27, 2009 at Lost in Cyberspace

    [...] Spotify releases sharing on Twitter featureAugust 26, 2009 [...]

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