Re: Do you Twitter?
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:53 am
Twitter rocks actually... both entertaining and educational (if you follow smart people).
http://www.twitter.com/AbletonVids
Jason
http://www.twitter.com/AbletonVids
Jason
URL not found?Nick the Zombie wrote:I love Twitter, it's been a fantastic way to keep in contact with other businesses as well as my customer-base.
http://www.twitter.com/NicksTutorials
OMFGnecho wrote: Its ego-driven individualism masquerading as "community". "How many 'friends' do I have?" "How many 'FOLLOWERS' do I have?". Replacing real social connections with a social simulation, creating a massive centralized hub for all human "interaction", so it can be quantified, categorized and analyzed, homogenizing and neutering human knowledge.
"But what about the vital role social networking played in the Iranian uprising?" you ask.... give me a break - for every concerned global citizen there were 10,000 isolated, socially dysfunctional teenagers "communicating" about ringtones in semi-literate text-speak. People still died, the uprising was crushed and Twitter pulled of a PR coup.
Me - I'm a complete hypocrite, of course. I work as an Online Marketing Manager for a digital start-up company. And I'm typing this into a forum....
Angstrom wrote:OMFGnecho wrote: Its ego-driven individualism masquerading as "community". "How many 'friends' do I have?" "How many 'FOLLOWERS' do I have?". Replacing real social connections with a social simulation, creating a massive centralized hub for all human "interaction", so it can be quantified, categorized and analyzed, homogenizing and neutering human knowledge.
"But what about the vital role social networking played in the Iranian uprising?" you ask.... give me a break - for every concerned global citizen there were 10,000 isolated, socially dysfunctional teenagers "communicating" about ringtones in semi-literate text-speak. People still died, the uprising was crushed and Twitter pulled of a PR coup.
Me - I'm a complete hypocrite, of course. I work as an Online Marketing Manager for a digital start-up company. And I'm typing this into a forum....
marketing manager FAIL
ok, I'll school ya on why you are completely wrong.
Myspace benefits
Using this I was contaced by some people I used to tour with it was great to hear from them again.
my old label manager got in touch and he remembered some money he owed me, and sorted out a possible re release of some old stuff. I found/was contacted by a load of bands and musicians who were actually quite good, surprisingly so. I mentioned a few of these to my actual real world friends and they were very grateful to hear these hidden gems.
Upshot: myspace was quite good for music, and (social) music business
Facebook benefits
was contacted by people who I haven't seen for 15 years or so, complete with photos of our scene. Then I could put them in touch with others who they had lost touch with, and share my own photos. I also got to find out exactly what it is that some of my friends do without having to ask "what IS your band called again". I also now know when everyone's birthday is and when their gigs are.
Being on facebook has drawn a lot of my more removed friends closer, when we meet at parties I don't have to struggle to remember if they have kids/wife/crack habit and can engage in a decent conversation.
Upshot: facebook supports my real social life
twatter
I use it as a 'microblog/rss' I only subscribe to people who include some information content in their posts. %40 information is fine. EG my feed curerntly tells me: Google Wave is going semi-public on september 30th(thanks Andreas), saw some .htaccess tricks from SmashingMag, Stephen Fry just did a Ted talk.
Even the seemingly innocuous posts or self-hyping ones include some information. NQ_music's bcr just died, a reminder that it can and does happen. Charlie Brooker reminded me that his TV show was on last night, it's not often that a program maker reminds me 'personally'
upshot : Twitter delivers me information in bite sized chunks on topics I am interested in
I always laugh at the 'big media' articles which portray myspace/facebook/twitter as a pointless race to a vast 'friend' total. The people writing these articles seem to take the worst-case scenario and use it as a brush to tar the whole enterprise.
Imagine other topics covered this same way: 'Food' is pointless and self-serving, I have seen fat people, they eat too much food. I think People only want to get fat by ingesting million calories. Food is pointless
I really despair for your clients though, you are meant to understand the benefits of this digital media stuff.
I suggest taking up wood carving, or perhaps make earthenware pots
touched a nerve?necho wrote:
hahahahahahaha - really touched a nerve there, didn't I!!!
I do it to get paid. I do it well. And it pays well. And I only work 4 days a week. So I have more time for music.
Hyper-sensitive digi-tard FAIL!!!!
What's wrong with irony? Are you American? You don't know me, you know nothing about me, you take the internet too seriously - You make me laugh.Angstrom wrote:touched a nerve?necho wrote:
hahahahahahaha - really touched a nerve there, didn't I!!!
I do it to get paid. I do it well. And it pays well. And I only work 4 days a week. So I have more time for music.
Hyper-sensitive digi-tard FAIL!!!!
er, no - it just made me laugh at the irony: like a mechanic saying "I can't see the point of engines" or a chef who despises pans.
you really ought to be able to see the point of your own tools, otherwise how can you advise people?
BTW your rather weak attempt at one-upmanship after saying how bad you are at your job? Not so hot.
Most people on this forum have very similar jobs to you and work in very similar conditions.
I would do that IF it supported Facebook updated to band pages, instead of personal profiles. Supposed to be a feature coming.redok wrote:I use ping.fm to update my Facebook, Myspace and Twitter profile at once.
I do hope that it`s comming. But anyway it`s a great way to update my pages.tempus3r wrote:I would do that IF it supported Facebook updated to band pages, instead of personal profiles. Supposed to be a feature coming.redok wrote:I use ping.fm to update my Facebook, Myspace and Twitter profile at once.
Its seems that the twitter help you a lot in your business.. Great job..rbro wrote:I have to admit I thought it was kind of a waste of time at first, but I've been doing it for a little over a week now. Since then, I've added almost 1000 followers, have been selling copies of my album and have been contacted by several radio stations. Very much worth your marketing efforts I believe. Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/atomicskunk.