Twitter and Your Music Business

Last month, I posted a review of Twitter, a social networking application that lets people "follow" you on daily activities via RSS feed, mobile phone text messages, instant messenger, or web.

For an example of how it works, check out my page. And if you want, feel free to "follow" me.

General thoughts...

This thing, like MySpace or Facebook, is easy to get caught up in...but it's not "work."  And for the most part, it's not really going to move your music career forward to send people Twitter messages about everything you do during the day.  In fact, if you send people too many messages, they'll start to ignore you.

But...it's a great way to let fans and others know about upcoming gigs, new songs for download, and other "important" things that your band is doing.  And by "important," I mean things that will make you money.

So take a look, check out my page, and see if it works for you.  If I notice that you're using it effectively, I may even feature you here at MusicMarketing.com. :)

Comments

[kstew]

I've been using Twitter for about a month now. I love how it ties into Facebook, so I only have to update Twitter to update Facebook at the same time.

I am still figuring out how to leverage Twitter to increase my marketing efforts.

Thanks for the post.

www.twitter.com/kstew

[stinson]

Been wondering if you were using twitter. FYI I am now one of your twitter followers. Thanks for the link to your page...