Twitter: indie music
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Do you twitter?
If you have an account and want to twitter about indie music, look me up at http://twitter.com/puddlegum. -
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naw, i'm just looking for other people who use twitter and are into indie rock. i'm new to it and figured there were a few here that are into it.
plus, i think a serious discussion about how to use twitter with music blogs would be cool. -
"thinking about getting a Twitter account"
"realizing I have too many other accounts from Web 2.0 pages that I never use"
"deleting myspace, flickr, etc. accounts"
"going off to to find breakfast "
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I was going to figure out the twitter thing at sxsw thisw year but I never got around to it. It seems kind of interesting (in small doses).
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"Exhausted, nearing death from trying to keep up with my RSS feeds, Twitter, IRC, IM, cell phone texts and email accounts"
"Looking at the bright side - the fax machine has been silent for years" -
My idea is to use Twitter as a channel of news bits. Write one or two sentences about a band, website, or email that I just received. Add a link to the band's site or mp3.
Since my blog is more like new stories, I spend at least an hour researching the facts and finding links to add. But not everything I find has enough content for a news story.
With enough Twitter "followers", you could essentially point quite a bit of traffic at a link or mp3.
This way I'm not wasting time looking at sites looking for news to write about, ya know? -
I guess the way I see Twitter is to use it as a mini-blog.
Interesting article about using Twitter:
http://splashcastmedia.com/a-twitter-top-ten -
BBC is using Twitter to broadcast their news stories:
http://twitter.com/bbcnews
The way they're using it is by keeping everyone as a "follower", since a "friend" would their twitter on the BBC Twitter page. -
Good luck - As Cole Porter said,
Experiment,
Make it your motto day and night.Experiment,
And it will lead you to the light. -
hehe
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Posted by: JimHGood luck - As Cole Porter said,
Experiment,
Make it your motto day and night.Experiment,
And it will lead you to the light.yeah i think ole Cole was experimentin' with something completely different
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Posted by: marathonpacks
yeah i think ole Cole was experimentin' with something completely different
this made me lol for real.
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gay sex?
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Bringing this back in case anyone's reconsidered in the last month. It's much cooler than I assumed. And yes, BBC and NPR updates are more than welcome along with the info flood. Thank god it's only 140 characters per entry. Think twice before adding scobleizer or techcrunch, for example.
PS: I'm @gregwind (shocking, right?) -
Posted by: puddlegumDo you twitter?
If you have an account and want to twitter about indie music, look me up at http://twitter.com/puddlegum.I do twitter occasionally and it's about the indie music: http://twitter.com/ipickmynose
Also, my friend/ fellow college radio DJ Murray twitters indie rock news here: http://twitter.com/rockbites
But it looks like you stopped updating, puddlegum. What gives? -
I was using Twitter for a while managing a tour account that followed our clients' tours dates. It became too much to maintain with too few subscribers. Maybe the communities grown since then. (This was about a year and half ago). Does anyone use Twitter first-hand for tour posts?
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things that make me sleep easier at night:
- not knowing what i'm apparently missing with Twitter nor caring
- deleting my personal MySpace profile
- adopting new policy not to sign up for any Web 2.0 shit until it's 18 months after i first hear about it
- my new email sig:
I DO NOT OWN A BLACKBERRY, IPHONE OR OTHER SUCH NUISANCE. SO IF YOU EMAIL ME OUTSIDE OF NORMAL OFFICE HOURS, AN IMMEDIATE RESPONSE IS NOT A GIVEN. -
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We all have our boundaries on communication. It isn't political. I had a friend who was the last person in America to have a cell phone (I want to say 2003-ish). He Twitters. Use what you feel comfortable with, but don't imagine that your decisions make you smarter either way. Next year or week you could feel differently. And if you dropped into the "find a twitter buddy" thread to rail, I have to call that small. Otherwise, congrats on your individuality. ;)
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I still have a cell phone.
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Erm, confused. I was just saying that irrespective of what methods you use, cutting yourself off from the rest of the world for a bit is a healthy thing to do. Draw breath, relax, have a cuppa, all sorts of good things.
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I hate the word "twitter" almost as much as I hate the word "blog".
And I hate that my life isn't nearly interesting enough to bother twittering. -
Good grief man, stop being such a twit.
Mwaaah hah haaaaa... eh? Oh.
Sorry. -
Posted by: adam_beggarsthings that make me sleep easier at night: - not knowing what i'm apparently missing with Twitter nor caring - deleting my personal MySpace profile - adopting new policy not to sign up for any Web 2.0 shit until it's 18 months after i first hear about it - my new email sig: I DO NOT OWN A BLACKBERRY, IPHONE OR OTHER SUCH NUISANCE. SO IF YOU EMAIL ME OUTSIDE OF NORMAL OFFICE HOURS, AN IMMEDIATE RESPONSE IS NOT A GIVEN.Posted by: chromewavesI hate the word "twitter" almost as much as I hate the word "blog". And I hate that my life isn't nearly interesting enough to bother twittering.
damn the man! -
Matthew,
Agree wholeheartedly. I was responding more to Adam, but the point is the same. How you communicate and how reachable you are is neither definite over the long term nor indicative of the value of your character. My experience is the more you are dissatisfied you are with your life, the more available you make yourself in the hopes of finding people to get you out of your rut/hole. No value judgment on dissatisfaction either, as it sometimes leads to better things. But it isn't twitter/iPhone, etc.'s fault if people want to mix it up. Safer than drinking in bars, less gear/rad/ultra than seeing bands in clubs.
The real villains are the people who try to make their life by twittering all day in the hopes of becoming a Guru 2.0. Those people need to UTFS. -
I had to UTFS to find out the definition of UTFS ;-)
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I was actually using a Yoda STFU. Up the ffff shut, rather than the poorly constructed (in my view of yoda grammar) TFSU. Doesn't the verb always go last unless there's a clause? (It takes a special kind of nerd to parse yado-ish, I know.)
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I am still trying to figure out what fucking possible use things like Facebook are, beyond being a massive address book of old acquaintances I have no interest whatsoever in keeping in touch with. That said, my wee cousin has tagged herself and her entire life with it, and she's a pretty intelligent girl too - no vapid social butterfly. It's interesting to watch, in a sense, but still not something I could claim to entirely understand.
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barcodes on the wrist are next ;-)
(has anyone seen Idiocracy? Perhaps the finest movie about our culture in the past decade, ha-ha) -
Not a fan of facebook either. I've got a page, but anyone I have "friended" there, I know well enough to e-mail or call. I believe it's still for a younger (dating, not married) set, but who's to say. I've never heard anyone say "I love Facebook" whereas I think people really get a kick out of the Twitter firehose and used to love MySpace. I fyou want to get to know me (not saying anyone does) the blog or Twitter are good places to start. Facebook doesn't seem like it ever would be, even to the extent MySpace was (until I stopped investing any time in it).
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I set up a twitterfeed based on my site's RSS because someone asked me to, but I can't be bothered to do much more than that. I'm busy enough as-is.
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And that's enough, really. I'd add that just to have one place to get all the latest in one stream rather than going to a page with 40 RSS feeds organized separately. I add your feed and it gets mixed in with NPR, my buddy Matt and GigaOm. Not a bad deal when you have 5 minutes to kill (and don't want to use that time to achieve harmony with the universe, which -- again -- is nothing to sneeze at).
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