TwittyTunes: Tell Your Friends What's Playing

I spend the bulk of my day at the office listening to music; it's the only way I can focus enough to get anything done. When I'm not working though, it's fun to update my friends with a particular song or tune that's running through my head. Now I personally prefer Pownce for this sort of thing, but the Twitter community is just too large to ignore. TwittyTunes has me covered, and makes it easy to post what I'm rocking out on to Twitter so my friends can see.





TwittyTunes rides on top of FoxyTunes, a Firefox and IE extension that allows you to manage your music player right from your Web browser. Originally for Firefox, FoxyTunes adds buttons to your browser window that let you bring up the song currently playing, manage the volume, skip tracks forward and back, play and pause the music, and more. As long as you have FoxyTunes installed, TwittyTunes can ride along with it. Next to your FoxyTunes interface, TwittyTunes will add itself as an icon that you can click when you want to tell the world what you're listening to.

Simply click the TwittyTunes icon and TwittyTunes will pop up with the song currently playing in its window. You can select exactly what you're doing, like "listening to," or create your own custom action, like "rocking out to," or "jamming to" if you prefer. If you want to tell your friends how much you hate the song playing right now, feel free to change that to "disgusted by." The song artist and title auto-populate from your music player. Simply click to submit the message to your Twitter feed for the whole world to see.

TwittyTunes doesn't automatically submit every song that plays in your player to Twitter, instead you have to manually choose which ones to submit. That's not necessarily a bad thing - some people Tweet enough as it is, a running playlist of what they hear on a daily basis might be enough to make you consider putting TwitterSnooze to good use.