Does Spotify care that non-Facebook users can't share songs from android or iOS?

[brianSpotify]

Empty friends list on iOS and Android apps.  

Have they even acknowledged this issue? Doesn't seem like it.  

It's like spotify can't decide if they want to be Twitter or Facebook and they are stuck inbetween with simple things like sharing not working. What the hell Spotify?   About to jump ship. 

[TheStageIsOver]

Spotify has always been strange about social media accounts. I joined when they debuted in the US and required you to have a facebook, except when I deactivated that facebook there was no way to unlink my Spotify account, so I was SOL.

I think it comes down to the ultimate design decision of whether or not they want their own social media platform, or they want to piggyback off of others.

Anyways, I assume you have people added that show up on the desktop version?

[brianSpotify]

Yes, the friends list works on desktop (PC and OSX).  

Steps to reproduce:

Play any song -> click share icon -> spotify people ->   Empty List appears.   Searching also does not work.

[Peter__]

Can confirm this is a known issue since iOS version 0.7.4 reported on 04-09-2013, original topic here:

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-iOS-iPhone-iPad-iPod-Touch/Non-Facebook-friends-missing-on-iPho...

Interestingly, once you get the new "Me" tab on iOS which is currently rolling out to users in a phased roll out, you can view the people you follow like in the desktop application (which includes non-Facebook users) but you can't yet share to non-Facebook users again. 

[brianSpotify]

At least they've acknowledged it in that thread!

Thanks for the link