AOL employees are tweeting that AOL is shutting down AOL Music and firing the employees in the division. AOL Music operates variety of news websites. Along with music.aol.com, AOL is also axing The Bootm, Noisecreep, Boombox, Tour Tracker. All these are also part of AOL music.
Spinner tweeted that AOL is shutting down the services. Later they deleted the tweet. Tweet said, ” All of AOL Music is shutting down. Thank you all for your support. We had such a blast.”
See Few tweets by Dan Reilly, editor of Spinner.
Well, we all just got laid off. AOL Music is finished.
— Dan Reilly (@danreilly11) April 26, 2013
Sitting in an HR meeting right now, trying to negotiate keeping our computers for a few more days.
— Dan Reilly (@danreilly11) April 26, 2013
Tweet from AOL Radio also confirms the news
It’s a sad day here at @aol. We’d like to say goodbye to our colleagues at @aolmusic, @thebootdotcom, @noisecreep, @spinner and @theboombox
— AOL Radio (@AOLRadio) April 26, 2013
We are still waiting to get official announcement.
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