Twitter Music Drops From Top 100 Free Apps

It's starting to look like Twitter's music app may be more like Poke than Vine.

Twitter Music fell out of Apple's list of the top 100 free apps in the U.S. on Saturday just nine days after it launched, and it has only continued to drop since then. As of Monday morning, the app was ranked #117 in the App Store, according to data from App Annie. Twitter Music remains in the top 10 for music apps, but just barely — its currently sitting at #10 in that category.

The music app launched on April 18, a little more than a month after a report first came out saying that Twitter had acquired We Are Hunted to build a music discovery app. While Twitter has not disclosed the sum it paid for the startup, it's estimated to be in the tens of millions. At its peak, the app hit No. 5 in the App Store. Read more...