Discover new music with Spotify & Twitter real-time search
September 6th, 2009
Free music streaming service Spotify (previously covered) recently implemented a “Post to Twitter” feature. It’s a great way to share your favourite tracks with your friends.
And now: using the new tool I’ve developed called Twittify (Twitter + Spotify), it’s a great way to discover new music too.
How does it work?
It uses Twitter’s real-time search to retrieve information about what people are listening to. You can search by Twitter user, artist, etc. It then uses Spotify to play that track.
photo: marfis75
The result: You discover new music and songs that other people are currently listening to around the world.
How do I update the track list?
Twittify does this automatically once a minute – you don’t need to do anything at all.
How do I share music?
In Spotify, right-click on a song and click “Share to > Twitter”.
How was it built?
Javascript which interfaces with Twitter Search and the Spotify Application.
Is this new?
In May, I posted a proof of concept. This new version looks better and integrates with Spotify’s new “Share to Twitter” feature.
Try it out…
Go to the Twittify webpage.
Got questions or comments?
Please drop us a message in the blog comments below – I’d love to hear from you.
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- Comments(4)
This is great. It comes close to what I see as the ultimate music service. Blip.fm powered by Spotify.
One thing is annoying though. Spotify starts playing a new song before the current one has stopped playing.
Maybe you can implement a fix for this?
Hi Ken,
Thank for your tool, almost what I was looking for:
http://twitter.com/Lablasco/status/8030092928
It would be perfect if, as long as groups and individual people, it worked also with the recent twitter lists, so you could listen to the twitted music of a group of people you’re following.
Cheers!
Hello!
I've created a platform, Spotify Apps which is a web site in Spotify style where I will collect the best spotify sites into one service. Would you like to be the first one to integrate your service on the site? Send me an email