localtweeps :: Help Localize The Twittersphere! :: Home Musicians on Twitter: 100+ Artists That Tweet This post was co-authored by Cameron Chapman, who writes a blog at Cameronchapman.com and is @cameron_chapman on , and Alec Feld, who authors a blog at alecfeld.com and is @alecfeld on . As the industry changes, so have the methods by which music is promoted. Traditional marketing is being replaced by artists and bands using social media sites like Twitter to engage fans, promote their work, and connect with others. The modern web and the future of the music industry seem almost inextricably intertwined in terms of marketing, listening, communicating, and purchasing. Is your favorite artist tweeting? 50 Cent - Rapper 50 Cent posts tons of links, retweets content (mostly about himself) and updates very regularly. Adam Goldstein - Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, tweets mostly about his music. Al Yankovic - Comedic singer Al Yankovic's tweets are usually funny, often giving some insight into his day-to-day life. Britney Spears - No introduction is needed for Britney. D.A. Hadouken!
Taking off the training wheels Home > Archive > 2009 > May > 19 Tuesday, May 19, 2009 by Dave Winer. Technology loops, it follows a pattern that repeats, and we're in one of those loops right now. Here's how it goes. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. That's the loop. So then the question comes up, as we've been talking about now for years, what does the break-out from Twitter look like? So... I'm thinking now that Twitter is this -- A very low ramp onto blogging, which itself was a low ramp onto publishing. For a guy like me, who mastered blogging long ago, Twitter is compelling because of the people. Plus if you believe the loop model, the best of the Twitter users, the ones who are doing the most interesting stuff with it, they're going to want more, soon. Earlier today I twitted: "I like the open web so much I'm willing to accept its limits." Then a few hours later Larry Page hinted at the explosive breakout I'm looking for. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Just one little protocol to implement it. Oh happy day! "cheesecake" Recent stories
How Not to Tweet Every once in awhile, a library follows me on Twitter. When they do, I usually check out their Twitter feed (but rarely follow them). And every once in awhile, I see something like this . This isn’t “Pick on MSJLibrary Day” – I’m sure they’re a fine library, and I commend them for jumping into Twitter to figure it out. Named themselves with a form of their library’s name. Added a picture of their library Added a web link to their library website Their bio is great: “Helping You Research, Learn & Connect” Updates are locked/protected. Following the wrong people. I said their bio was great … but since they’re locked, it doesn’t make much sense – they can’t help you connect if you CAN”T connect! And I should say this – there’s nothing wrong with following me , CNN, ALA, or the National Geographic. Before you create an organizational account, do some planning and goal setting. What do you want to get out of it? Why are you setting it up? Who’s going to maintain the account?
Twitter for Beginners: 5 Steps for Better Tweeting Twitter is immensely useful as a utility for joining in the global conversation and sharing thoughts, opinions, information, and media. But for new users, there's also a fairly steep learning curve. For many people new to Twitter, the site doesn't immediately "make sense" and it can be a bit daunting. But there are things those users can do to make the service more useful from the get go. Below are five steps for new users to take in order to make the Twitter experience more enjoyable from the beginning. STEP ONE: Find People You Already Know I joined Twitter later than most early adopters, but once I finally became a Twitter newbie in early 2008, it was much easier to jump into the conversation when I was following some people I already knew — people who I was sure were already talking about things I was interested in and would value my input. Another way to find friends is to check out the Twitter Facebook app and see if any of your friends on Facebook are also on Twitter.
If the Twitter community was 100 people... « 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About Twitter UPDATE: Follow me at @rohitbhargava if you liked this post! Last month a social media analytics provider named Sysomos released a comprehensive report on Twitter usage. The problem with most analysis on Twitter, though, is that it is limited by the minimal amount of data that Twitter collects. So, to fill the gaps, most reports do things like guessing gender based on real names or pulling data from keywords in people's biographic information. This often yields some questionable results - and the Sysomos report is not immune to this (for example, they find that 65% of Twitter users are under the age of 25, but base this on only the 0.7% of users who actually disclose their age). Looking past these small points, the report does share some fairly interesting observations and stats as well if you dig a bit deeper. 21% (One Fifth) of Twitter accounts are empty placeholders. Twitter is being led by the social media geeks.
Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet If you're under 25 and use Twitter, you're not the source of the site's tremendous growth. While we recently questioned the findings of a largely anecdotal report from Morgan Stanley written by a 15 year old, Nielsen has now produced figures that confirm the trend: young people don't Tweet. More precisely, Nielsen has compiled data from its NetRatings panel of 250,000 US Internet users and discovered that there are fewer young people on Twitter than on the Internet as a whole: one quarter of US Internet users are under 25, Nielsen says, but only 16% of Twitter users lie in that age range.
Denial of Service Attack Knocks Twitter Offline (Updated) | Epicenter Twitter was shut down for hours Thursday morning by what it described as an “ongoing” denial-of-service attack, silencing millions of Tweeters. It was the first major outage the service has suffered in months and possibly the first ever due to sabotage. The outage appeared to begin mid-morning, EST, and affected users around the world. After about three hours, the service was coming back online in fits and starts (updated). The first official word about the outage came in a terse statement on Twitter’s status blog: “Site is down — We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.” That was followed by a more relaxed post on the main Twitter blog by co-founder Biz Stone, which nevertheless gave no indication of how the defense was going — or how long the service might be down. “On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack,” wrote Stone.
It's SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites | Media From uncles wearing skinny jeans to mothers investing in ra-ra skirts and fathers nodding awkwardly along to the latest grime record, the older generation has long known that the surest way to kill a youth trend is to adopt it as its own. The cyberworld, it seems, is no exception. The proliferation of parents and teachers trawling the pages of Facebook trying to poke old schoolfriends and lovers, and traversing the outer reaches of MySpace is causing an adolescent exodus from the social networking sites, according to research from the media regulator Ofcom. The sites, once the virtual streetcorners, pubs and clubs for millions of 15- to 24-year-olds, have now been over-run by 25- to 34-year-olds whose presence is driving their younger peers away. Although their love of being online shows no sign of abating, the percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds who have a profile on a social networking site has dropped for the first time – from 55% at the start of last year to 50% this year.