It’s Time All Indie Artists Joined Twitter – Part 1 of 3

Hey! All of you Indie music artists out there, you all need to get off your ass and join Twitter, like today. What’s the point? You gotta get on this ride, and it’s a fast ride that has more passengers hopping on every single day. Check out this year’s State of the Twittersphere report. 5 to 10 thousand people are getting on the Twitter ride each day. Yep, 5 to 10 thousand.

So, who cares? I’ll tell you why many people care, and why you should to. First of all, you ought to know that there are three types of attitudes people have toward twitter. You got those people who say, “Tell me about Twitter and what I should do with it.” Then, you got the people who have already joined Twitter and know how to somewhat use it. And, of course, there are those people who live under a rock. Their response to Twitter: “Twitter, WTF is that?” For my own purposes, I’m gonna talk about the first two, okay?

Alright, listen up. All of you who dont’ have a clue as to what Twitter is, I’m gonna tell you. Hey, you over there, wake up. Is everyone with us? Good, great, grand. Twitter is a fascinating micro-blogging website. Each blurb, or “tweet,” lets you tell the whole wide world exactly what you are doing, in 140 words or less. People can sign up to follow you, and you can follow whoever you want too.

Okay now, this is for the folks who are already tweeters. Congratulations and good for you; I hope you are using it to your advantage. Huh? Yeah, I kinda figured too many of you weren’t. Let me help you. There are a couple of things I can share with you to really get something out of Twitter. These helpful hints can apply to everyone in the music industry: indie artists, music entrepreneurs, and music heavyweights.

While deeply conversing with this girly friend of mine, who happens to be an indie music artist, she told me that she does not belong to the Twitter world. Why? She hates all of those annoying, useless posts from other people. I get it, and I get it even more if you’re new to Twitter; it can be mind-boggling. Some of the junk I read is freakin’ idiotic. I remember one dude who tweeted something like “officially relaxing with my bag of chocolate chip cookies.” Really, are you serious? Who cares? I don’t care. Do you? Exactly, it is completely pointless. Okay, Sesame Street fans, stay tuned for the next episode.

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