Pandora now has 20 million registered users
More evidence of why Twitter ISN’T just a useless way to tell people your cat just yawned… Online radio service Pandora revealed it’s now registered more than 20 million users, breaking the news on its Twitter feed.
The service has enjoyed a boost in recent months from its popular iPhone application. Reporting the news, TechCrunch wondered how many of those 20 million registered users are currently active, and in an update to its story, cited a claim by Pandora that 40% of them have been active in the past 90 days – that’s around eight million.
Questions around the business model of online radio remain, but it’s clear that services like Pandora are proving popular with consumers.
Tags: Pandora
December 24th, 2008 at 2:49 am
I still won’t understand how Twitter is useful or different from any other blog platform.
Just because Pandora chose to break the news on its Twitter feed, how does that prove that Twitter is a useful platform?
Since twitter became so popular over the past few months and TechCrunch has essentially turned into the “Twitter Daily Newsletter,” I’ve become more and more baffled as to why its important and why I or my clients should be using it. Every day I see more and more bands that have signed up for the service, but I’ve still got zero reason to have any of my bands join it.
With all of the blogging/social networks bands in particular are already a part of (MySpace, tumblr, faceook, ilike, imeem, bebo, youtube, purevolume, and buzznet- among a bunch of others), why force fans to sign up for another feed of information? They can just as easily (and more immediately) get the news that an artist is “in the studio” or “eating a ham sandwich” on facebook or myspace.
Twitter is creating ANOTHER place that fans have to go to get the same information that they can more easily get from the sources they’re already familiar with.
I’m hoping 2009 is the year that twitter sees its quick, painful demise.