Billboard has a chart for music-related tweets now
Just yesterday, Twitter shut down its #Music hub, a page that most Twitter users didn’t even know existed. But today comes news that Billboard has partnered with Twitter to launch the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts, a continuously updated list of what music people are talking about and sharing on Twitter. If that sounds sort of pointless (and it just may be), consider also that the chart will, according to the New York Times, only “monitor ‘positive’ mentions and filter out negative ones.” That means that, should Chris Brown do something terrible, all the tweets about his shenanigans won’t land him atop the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Chart, thus keeping him from the glory that comes with sitting atop an arbitrarily defined chart based on Twitter mentions.