Plenty of Spotify users share what they’re listening to with the world using Twitter, thanks to a one-click sharing option that’s baked into the much-hyped online music application. This in turn apparently inspires creative coders to use the data for building cool stuff on top of all that rich, public information.
SpotiChart, for example, is an amazing pet project by London-based developer Benoit Xhenseval that aggregates Spotify tweets from public Twitter accounts and parses the data in order to build dynamic global music charts based on streams of tracks, albums, playlists, artists and more.
SpotiChart regularly tracks the public Twitter timeline for tweets that contain the word spotify (which can be in a URL, even when it is shortened by one of the many tools for that) and upon reception contacts the Spotify service to get the details of items. SpotiChart then weeds out duplicate tweets, compiles the rest and turns the data into custom charts.
Every now and then (see schedule), SpotiChart will create updated charts and alert followers of the @SpotiChart account, which means in between 7 and 12 tweets per day will be sent to these users. Custom charts for tracks, albums and artists also have their own RSS feed, which updates once every day.
Great stuff, Xhenseval. But expect some backlash over that one unsolicited tweet your service sends out to random Spotify users to raise awareness for SpotiChart.
(Via Kieran McGrady)
this is one of a few hundred apps of this kind. including topspin. this particular app is merely creating spotify only charts, which is actually not so awesome considering there are over 500 digital retailers around the world and at least 10 major streaming services that operate internationally. much more valuable to track all of it. big meh to this.
Looks cool, haven’t tried it yet and planning to see what it can do mainly because we all love music.
Thanks to TechCrunch for this.
If you are interested in the architecture of SpotiChart.com I did a presentation of our technology stack at the Twitter DevNest London on Nov 10.
http://prezi.com/eclwkjfjjzfk/
Using Spotify allows me to create a CHANGING playlist with the Top20 of yesterday, last week or last month with the most tweeted tracks. So you can directly listen to the songs in Spotify and always have the up-to-date chart!
I talked to Twitter before doing the one-off unsolicited tweet and the backlash was minimal as I make it very explicit both on site and in the tweet that it is a one-off.
I have received 2 complaints vs 1,050 followers in 2 months.
Thanks
Benoit
If Spotify expands out of Europe (although from what I read yesterday that won’t be happening soon) it could become an interesting service. The more users it gets and the frequency they tweet what they like on Spotify, the better it will become.
What someone needs to do is create decent recomendations… Spotify rocks, but their recomendation engine is terrible!
More useless data organized to make it appear to have value.