--- description: Now you can listen and scroll at the same time title: Twitter Introduces New Way to Listen to Audio image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Twitter Introduces New Way to Listen to Audio  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Oct 16, 2014 10:06 PM CUT  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Oct 16, 2014 10:06 PM CUT Twitter has created a new way for users to play audio inside tweets, announcing Thursday that they have teamed up with Soundcloud to bring a full catalogue of music and other recordings to Twitter. Embedding audio inside tweets is nothing new, but this freshly developed audio card allows a user to additionally “dock” a music card inside the app while continuing to scroll through the timeline while listening simultaneously. David Guetta and Chance the Rapper have already taken advantage of the new cards: > [](http://twitter.com/davidguetta/status/522843748066013185) > [](http://twitter.com/chancetherapper/status/522842168050737152) This isn’t Twitter’s first attempt at re-imagining how tweets make use of sound — the company [killed its #Music app](http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/21/5534814/twitter-music-is-officially-dead "undefined") in March, after it failed to draw listeners away from more dominant music streaming services like Spotify. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3514126/twitter-audio/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3514126/twitter-audio/"},"headline":"Twitter Introduces New Way to Listen to Audio","datePublished":"2014-10-16T22:06:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:03:26.522Z","description":"Now you can listen and scroll at the same time","url":"https://time.com/3514126/twitter-audio/","keywords":["Tech","Social Media"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3514126/twitter-audio/","name":"Twitter Introduces New Way to Listen to Audio"}}]}] ```