Author Archives: Vincent Carannante

Twitter had a Music App?

Twitter music app

New York Times Link

Twitter has decided to end its #Music app, which never took off as well as Vine, Twitter’s video sharing app. Twitter will try new methods for incorporating music into the newsfeed. The company has hired a few well known developers to help them with this integration. One of Twitter’s main goals will be incorporating music into the feed in ways other than user’s tweets. Because music is such a popular topic of discussion on Twitter, it is very smart for them to try to capitalize.

Netflix on the Rise

netflix

New York Times Link

Although Netflix has had some recent success, the company’s big names seem slightly pessimistic. They are concerned with a dip, similar to the one the company suffered in 2003. They are interested in maintaining their current users, while gathering more customers. Netflix is now spending almost all of its profit on acquiring new content, hoping on gaining more customers in the long run. They are also launching more and more original series productions, which brings in more profit than streaming other series.

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