Richie Hawtin on the Tweet

Everyone knows that NI love Richie Hawtin and Richie Hawtin loves Native Instuments, but their strictly-professional relationship has reached new heights as Hawtin’s label Minus has developed a new Twitter application that integrates directly with Traktor Pro.

The basic premise is that, every 30 seconds, the track you’re playing in Traktor Pro is automatically ‘tweeted’ to your Twitter account with a ‘Now playing:’ prefix, through Traktor’s Internet Broadcasting function. Check out Hawtin’s Twitter page to get a glimpse of the future.

Pretty clever stuff, and it will available to everyone outside The Cube in Traktor’s next update (available in June)