Only six months after its inauguration, Twitter Music might be official deaded. According to AllThingsD, Twitter is considering shutting down its doors to the music app, after abysmal numbers in usage over the past few months.
The app was supposed to revolutionize the game in how fans discovered music, using their followers list to search for artists, songs their friends may have tweeted or singles that may have been currently trending. It also let you discover up and coming acts based on Twitter chatter and allowed you to search for artists through follower lists, in case someone you knew was keeping tabs and recently followed artist.
In theory, it should have been a great app, but as we told you the first day we tested it on our own, there were some major gaps to fill off the bat. For one, not everyone has Spotify, RDIO and/or wants to listen to 30 second snippets of music when you can probably find the full song on Soundcloud. Secondly, Twitter never used their platform to their advantage, to help get people familiar with the app. Not once did we hear of an album premiering on #TwitterMusic or any artists debut a single through it. They pretty much kept it separate from regular Twitter and it literally went unmentioned in our timeline since the first week it went live. We actually forgot #TwitterMusic existed.
No shots at Twitter, though. It was just a valiant attempt that came up short.
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