Saturday, September 12, 2009

Facebook, Twitter integration comes to iTunes

 This week Apple unveiled a new version of its iTunes music software that integrates both Facebook and Twitter. You now have "Share on Facebook" and "Share on Twitter" options in a drop-down menu on album purchase pages in the iTunes Store to broadcast which music you're interested in.    Basically, this means that you can show off your music taste or attempt to convince friends to buy albums for you. The links in Twitter tweets and Facebook posts will likely go straight to the option to purchase the album, potentially driving up sales.     This is a pretty standard practice likely accomplished through implementation of the social sites' APIs rather than a formal partnership. The more interesting part? It looks like this officially proves that an extremely dubious set of screenshots that hit the Web last month--showing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, and social-music site Last.fm integrated directly into the iTunes app--are indeed fake.
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September 12, 2009
iTunes gets Twitter and Facebook integration

This week Apple unveiled a new version of its iTunes music software that integrates both Facebook and Twitter. You now have "Share on Facebook" and "Share on Twitter" options in a drop-down menu on album purchase pages in the iTunes Store to broadcast which music you're interested in.

Basically, this means that you can show off your music taste or attempt to convince friends to buy albums for you. The links in Twitter tweets and Facebook posts will likely go straight to the option to purchase the album, potentially driving up sales.

This is a pretty standard practice likely accomplished through implementation of the social sites' APIs rather than a formal partnership. The more interesting part? It looks like this officially proves that an extremely dubious set of screenshots that hit the Web last month--showing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, and social-music site Last.fm integrated directly into the iTunes app--are indeed fake.


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