Slacker Radio Announces Integration With Twitter Micro-Blogging Service
Slacker Radio Enables Listeners to Tweet Stations and Preferences Encouraging
Music Discovery
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Slacker, Inc. today announced the Personal
Radio service has Twitter integration to provide listeners with a new way to
share their favorite stations. Slacker listeners with Twitter accounts can set
preferences to automatically tweet their favorite music from their PCs, Macs,
smartphones and everywhere else they listen to Slacker Radio in real time.
"Slacker has always offered music fans a great experience for listening to
millions of songs through their custom stations or expert-programmed genre
stations," said Jonathan Sasse, senior vice president of marketing at Slacker.
"With the new Twitter integration, we are helping listeners share their music
with friends and the Twitter community for the ultimate in music discovery."
The tweeting option works with the free Slacker Basic Radio service and
Slacker Radio subscription services. Music lovers can choose to automatically
or manually tweet the following items to alert their friends and followers
about their music discovery experience:
-- Station changes/plays
-- Favorite Song
-- Banned Song
-- Banned Artist
-- Pick from any or all of the above
Listeners can add their Twitter login to either their Slacker Basic or Slacker
subscription account by visiting www.slacker.com/community and selecting which
actions they would like to automatically tweet while listening. Manual tweets
can be made by selecting "share station" from the main Now Playing view from
the Slacker Web Player. All automatic tweets will work from any Slacker
enabled experience once configured online.
Slacker Personal Radio, available online at www.Slacker.com, enables listeners
to create their own Personal Radio stations or listen to and personalize over
100 expert-programmed genre stations ranging from 1940's classics to today's
hottest hits. Personalization options include rating songs or artists, playing
more popular vs. more eclectic music and listening to newer vs. classic songs.
Pricing and Availability
Slacker is an award-winning personal radio service with both free and paid
subscription options. Details on everywhere Slacker Radio are available on the
web at www.Slacker.com/everywhere. The Slacker experience is available on
BlackBerry smartphones, iPhone, iPod touch, Sony's X-series Walkman, Logitech
Squeezebox and Transporter network music player, RCA Infinite Radio, Sony
BRAVIA TV and Slacker Personal Radio Players.
About Slacker, Inc.
Slacker is the world's first Personal Radio company offering "Your Radio
Everywhere." Slacker allows music lovers to play highly personalized music
online at the Slacker web site or on the go with Slacker Personal Radio
players and mobile phones. Visit www.slacker.com for more information.
For regular Slacker updates follow us at www.Twitter.com/SlackerRadio, become
a Fan on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/SlackerRadio and for more information,
please visit www.Slacker.com.
The Slacker Personal Radio Mobile application is currently available for U.S.
customers only.
Slacker and Slacker.com are registered trademarks of Slacker, Inc. All other
trademarks and product names are the property of their respective companies.
Media Contact:
Anders Steele
FortyThree, Inc.
831.239.0960
slacker@fortythreepr.com
SOURCE Slacker, Inc.
Anders Steele of FortyThree, Inc., +1-831-239-0960, slacker@fortythreepr.com,
for Slacker, Inc.
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