Apple's Ping social network, built for sharing music preferences with your friends via iTunes, disappeared from everyone's radar right after it launched. It might be getting a second wind now, though, thanks to a partnership with Twitter. Ping now lets you discover and add your Twitter contacts, and share your Ping posts as tweets.
Here's how it works, according to Twitter's official blog: if you link your Twitter account to Ping, your likes, purchases and reviews will be sent out as tweets. They're not just any tweets, though: Twitter and Ping have built in a "rich media experience" so you can preview a song or click a purchase link directly from a Ping tweet. The song and album info will also pop up in the details pane on the right side of Twitter.com.
After Facebook integration for Ping fell through, Apple's social network withered away because it had no connection to its users' existing social graphs. This Twitter partnership brings Ping out of isolation in a big way, by not only leveraging Twitter to help people add Ping contacts, but also letting Ping invade Twitter.com directly. It would be nice to see Twitter offer an option to filter out Ping tweets, though, because some users will inevitably see them as spam.
Filed under: Web services, Apple, web 2.0, Twitter
Twitter connects with Apple's Ping for easy music sharing originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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