There is no denying the fact that Twitter is an extremely popular web service. In fact, Twitter is more than just a web service, It is a cultural phenomenon which is going to slowly but surely take over our lives. The service is spreading like a wild fire and the user base is growing at a breakneck speed. It is everywhere – Twitter is being discussed in the media, around the blogosphere and everywhere in between.
Most Tweeps (That’s the term used to refer to people who use twitter) use Twitter to share random quotes, funny jokes and useless poetry but some actually have good engaging conversations on it. And that is where the power of Twitter lies. The ability to let normal people have conversations, cutting across all the technical and physical barriers.
If you think about it, Twitter should have been the first application every developed by mankind because it mimics the most primitive and basic nature of humans. Talking. And socialising with like minded folks. That is what Twitter is all about and that is what makes Twitter so powerful and useful.
And now there is an application that tweets out your musical tastes to anyone willing to listen. Tunes Tweeter is a very simple application that does only one thing – Broadcast the name of the song that you’re listening to on iTunes to Twitter.
Download the zip file, extract it to a folder of your choice and launch the application. Give it your Twitter login credentials and you’re set.
Tunes Tweeter only works with iTunes for now, but that isn’t a problem for me as I only use iTunes for listening to music when I’m on windows.
So, how does it work ? Well, once the application is running, there is nothing for you to do. Continue listening to your music and Tunes Tweeter will get the names of the songs and the singer/band from iTunes and tweet it using your Twitter account.
You can choose to hide the above display by clicking on the Hide button and Tunes Tweeter will continue working in the background.
So, what are you waiting for. Download Tunes Tweeter and make even more like minded friends on Twitter.
Programmer, blogger and a geek making a living shifting bits around the Internet. Sharninder is the owner of Geeky Ninja
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I have successfully downloaded this from your website and another before this and once downloaded I try and log into the application with my twitter account as requested and annoyingly it repeatedly tells my username or password is incorrect.
Is there a remedy to this or has this been common? This will spend an abrupt end to a product that could have done so well.
I’m not sure about this. The application may be buggy, or trying to authenticate to a service/URL that isn’t present anymore. Try an updated version of the application to see if that works. It may be possible that twitter has changed their authentication mechanism and this application hasn’t been updated yet.
I believe the new Twitter has something to do with why it won’t work. You are probably right about the authentication. That’s unfortunate though! It doesn’t seem like Tunestweeter is updating any time soon.
Yes, it seems so. Its a shame that the author of Tunestweeter is not looking at releasing an update. It was a pretty cool app.
Is there any way to save ID etc. so it automatically logs you in? I have been using TT for a while & that seems to be my only issue I have with the program.
I’ve finally fixed TunesTweeter and released version 0.5. Sorry it took so long. Unfortunately, it only works with iTunes now since Microsoft removed a bunch of things from Media Player. I hope to bring it back soon and add Winamp support as well.
http://www.technipages.com/tunestweeter-0-5-released.html
Thanks for the update Mitch.