Twitter Music is here

Rumors about Twitter launching a music service floated around for nearly a week now, and today the company has finally come out by officially announcing that it is indeed rolling out “Twitter #Music” for iPhone and on the web. 
You don't have to tune onto music stations to use Twitter Music anymore.

Its biggest feature, though, is complete integration with Rdio and Spotify, two of the most popular music streaming services. Twitter’s unique role is in getting data from your followers to recommend and deliver music perfectly suited to your tastes. It also syncs with iTunes.

Interestingly, unlike its previous launches where Twitter usually targeted early adopters, this time the microblog is going straight for the mainstream. First because it made the announcement on the widely popular Good Morning, America and second for its tight integration of Rdio and Spotify. The Twitter Music iOS app should become available later today and an Android app is coming soon.

To share songs with followers, users can tap a spinning disc in the lower left corner of the app. That opens the player and allows users to tweet using an icon in the top right corner.

Twitter's app has several basic tabs designed to make it easy for users to navigate. #NowPlaying shows which songs have been tweeted by artists and by the people that a user follows. The "Suggested" tab gives recommendations of artists a user might like, and a "Popular" tab shows which new songs are trending on Twitter. The "Profile" tab shows which artists a person follows. To see which artists another person follows, search for someone's name and then open that person's profile.