Why Musicians Need To Be On Twitter

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Lost in Featured Articles, Loops, Site Rants

• It’s distributed service. Take it anywhere – more or less.
• Easy to connect to other artists. Networking will never die.
• It’s shiny and 2.0. Hell yeah.
• and one more very important thing.

Twitter is lifestreaming, microblogging and a whole lotte fancy stuff made simple. My version: an open textmessage. Wikipedia can give you a twitter low-down.

Facebook is fine. But it sucks on major points – all cluttered up and also closed in many ways. Right now it doesn’t even deliver thoose vanity urls that these crazy internetters need / want.

Besides, using an application like tweetdeck, your tweets can go directly to facebook as status updates.

I won’t bore you with a whole lotta twitter crap. For now, most content is crap: ‘I’m currently enjoying a major dump – I’ll try remember to wash my hands’. The eating a burger kind of update is mediocre – but non the less, a large part of Twitter.

What is genius is not only updating and connecting – it’s giving your fans exclusives and baiting interaction – and that’s narrowing it down in terms of getting to a lost point.

This interaction is hard to come by – and artists have been selling their soul to the bloodsucking vampire like big four (labels) in order to get promoted – and performing superficial interaction.

I’m loving every second of this social twitter interaction – because it will strip all the vanity want-to-be-famous musician wannabes from the business. For some strange reason, most party-poppers don’t really give a shit about their fans … they just wan’t to be rich and famous. THOOSE DAYS ARE OVER.

Twitter is training for a career in music. Twitter is taking yourself and your fans / mates seriously in a very smart, EASY! and casual way.

Tags: marketing, music, social, twitter