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Twitter to Launch Music Discovery App

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Twitter is the latest company to plan a move into music streaming, teaming up with Soundcloud to create an app for iOS. With their video app Vine proving quite the success so far, and having acquired music discovery service We Are Hunted last year, this news may not come as a huge surprise. However, with Apple and Google both planning to enter similar territory soon it’s going to be a tough one to pull off, which might explain why, unlike Vine, Twitter’s logos and branding will apparently feature prominently in the app as they try to engender loyalty in existing Twittererers…

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