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apparently social music discovery is what's in I'm Taylor Martin this is pocket now and this is a first look at Twitter music on iOS we all knew Twitter music was nearing release and today it officially launched for non-celebrities it's available for desktop app music twitter com but twitter also released an application for iOS the hashtag music app essentially it's a social music discovery app or an application that lets you know what all of your twitter friends are listening to so long as they care to participate it also shows what's trending across the 500 million strong social network when you install the iOS app you're prompted to login to your Twitter account and a Spotify or Rdio account if you have one then you are taken to the feed view Twitter music tracks users music habits by using the now playing hashtag and it separates that data across four categories popular emerging suggested and now playing the left most popular feed is exactly what you would expect the most tweeted songs across the network where you'll see widely known artists like maroon 5 Rihanna or city in colour to the right of the popular feed is emerging where you will find lesser-known artists and bands that get tweeted about one more page over is the suggested feed which recommends related artists to those that you may follow unfortunately this page apparently takes some time to propagate and we couldn't get it to work immediately as we weren't initially following any artists the next to last page is the now playing page which shows a feed of music that the people you follow or tweeting about and in the top right corner is a search button where you can search for other artists from any of these pages you can tap on any track to listen to a preview through iTunes however if you've logged into a Spotify or Rdio account you can listen to full tracks which effectively turns the app into a DJ playlist based on either popular music emerging music or your friends taste you can quickly switch between tracks and use the application basically as another way to indulge Spotify or Rdio if you don't have an account with either of these services though you can open the track and itunes for purchase the rightmost page is your Twitter profile which also displays any recognized artists that you follow with Twitter music there are some caveats worth mentioning it's only available for iOS and through desktop browsers for now but an Android application is in the making and we did run into a few initial glitches some tracks for example were unavailable to be played ones that we tweeted about directly from Spotify hopefully a future update will fix that the application itself is beautifully designed but the idea of social music discovery isn't totally new we've already seen this through Spotify or blast out of him however Twitter music has plenty of potential end so far we really like the new service that about does it so if you liked the video be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe and follow us in all the normal places twitter google+ and facebook at pocket now you can also find me on Twitter and find out what i'm listening to at casper tech i'm taylor martin and i will see you next time you