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Twitter Music Promotion
and Marketing Guide
Links to everything you always wanted to know about using Twitter to market your music, connect with fans, promote your live shows, and sell more music. An ever-expanding page of incredibly useful Twitter music resources.
Compiled by Bob Baker, who you can follow on Twitter here
What Is Twitter?
This YouTube video offers a quick and easy explanation of what Twitter is and why people use it:
Getting Started With Twitter
How to Use Twitter for Music Promotion by Heather McDonald, About.com
From Twits to Tweeple, Why I Embraced Twitter and You Should Too by Jennifer Laycock, Search Engine Guide
Newbies Guide to Twitter by Chris Brogan
Getting Started With Twitter by Dave Fleet
A Geek's Guide to Promoting Yourself and Your Business with Twitter by Geekpreneur (48-page PDF ebook)
Twitter? It's What You Make It by David Pogue, The New York Times
Twitter Music Promotion Tips
The Musician's Twitter Roadmap by Ariel Hyatt & Laura Fitton
Top Twitter Tips for Musicians by Steve Lawson
Using Twitter to Promote Your Music - a very good 10-minute video by JamBuzzer and AaronBeats
Smart Ways to Use Twitter to Promote Your Music by Bob Baker :-)
How to Use Twitter for Band Promotion, From the Deep End blog
Best Music Business Practices for Twitter by David Hooper
How One Artist Got 14,000 Downloads in 48 Hours Using Twitter from Music Think Tank
Twitter Promotion for Those Who Don't Collaborate With Lil Wayne from COPYCATS Media Blog
7 Reasons Everyone in the Music Industry Should Try Twitter by Gerd Leonhard
Right and Wrong Ways to Use Twitter for Music Promotion from 14sandwiches
So Now You're on Twitter - What Should You Do Next? by Gerd Leonhard
Add Music to Your Twitter Feeds
Twiturm - upload and share your original music
Song.ly - turns your MP3 link into a streaming flash player
Tra.kz - URL shortener for all things music
Play Twitter - play MP3 files directly on Twitter
Twisten.FM - crawls Twitter for tweets about music
More Twitter Music-Related Sites - TechCrunch blog post list
Books About Twitter Promotion
Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time by Joel Comm
Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online by Warren Whitlock and Deborah Micek
Coming Soon: Twitter Music Promotion Toolkit by Bob Baker
Useful Twitter Sites & Applications
Twitterholic - tracks the most popular people on Twitter
Twitter Search - Twitter's internal search engine
Twellow - an independent Twitter search directory
Just Tweet It - another directory for Twitter users
Twitterfeed - feeds your blog to Twitter
TweetDeck - helps you categorize who you follow
HootSuite - schedule your tweets in advance
Tweet Later - tools to automate your Twitter activity
TwitPic - share photos on Twitter
TweetBeep - keep track of tweets that mention you, your band, label, etc.
TwitterKeys - add music notes and other symbols to your tweets
Twhirl - a Twitter desktop client
TwitterFox - a Firefox browser extension
Friend or Follow - lets you know who you are following and who's not following you back
TwitThis - add this button to your site so people can quickly tweet about it
Twtpoll - create simple surveys/polls for Twitter
Well-Known Musicians on Twitter
Coldplay - twitter.com/coldplay
MC Hammer - twitter.com/MCHammer
SaraBareilles - twitter.com/SaraBareilles
Dave Matthews - twitter.com/DaveJMatthews
Alison (Fine Frenzy) - twitter.com/AFineFrenzy
John Mayer - twitter.com/johncmayer
P Diddy - twitter.com/iamdiddy
Kanye West - twitter.com/Kanye_West
Taylor Swift - twitter.com/taylorswift13
Britney Spears - twitter.com/britneyspears
Musicians on Twitter You Should Follow, and Some to Ignore from Each Note Secure
More Twitter Promo Tips & Resources
TwiTip blog by Darren Rowse
The Big Juicy Twitter Guide by Caroline Middlebrook
101 Ways to Rock and Be Rocked by Twitter by Pam Perry
100+ Smart Twitter Ideas by Dan Hollings
Using Twitter for Business by John Jantsch (9-page PDF report)
How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business by Michael Stelzner
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