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Twitter music may have died but the tweet goes on I'm Bridget Carey and this is your scene that update twitter has given up on its failed music service and pulled the Twitter music app from itunes for the three people that actually use twitter music you should take note that it will stop working on april eighteenth that's one year after its launch the website music twitter com will also stop working twitter music was designed as a place to discover new tunes based on what other people were tweeting about but it was a flop frankly navigation was messy and most folks just wanted to stick with the simple streaming services like Spotify and Pandora but it seems Twitter's adding a new feature that you'll find more useful twitter is showing some folks how many people have read their tweets now i don't personally see these changes but several twitter users are reporting that they see view numbers on the iOS twitter app so twitter could be testing this with just a small group if you can finally see how many people read your messages you may be more encouraged to post or it could give you more anxiety when you realize no one cares about your carefully crafted tweets LG has created a new type of light bulb that you can control from your smartphone or tablet you can turn the light on and off through a special app and you can also use it to control the brightness aside from showing off to friends you may actually find this useful for scheduling a light to be on and off at specific times you can have a light turn on when it's time to wake up in the morning or perhaps keep the light on when no one's home to avoid being target for burglary LG didn't say when this would go on sale the price was about $32 however you don't have to buy a special LG bulb to control your lamp from afar you can use a belkin wemo switch to control any device that's plugged into a particular outlet you can find one for about fifty dollars the google chromecast TV stick has a new party trick google released an app called photo wall for chromecast and it turns your TV into an interactive photo frame Google calls it a chrome experiment that lets people collaborate with images on the TV you the app anyone can take a photo and send it to the photo wall you can even doodle on it and at the end a YouTube video of the photo wall is automatically created I guess the video makes it easy to brag on social media about how much fun your party was if you're not familiar with the chromecast it's a $35 stick that plugs into the HDMI port on the back of your TV and it's an easy way to watch online videos on your big screen that's your tech news update and you can find more details on these stories at CNN com you can also keep updated by following along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey