Comments on: Don’t Turn Twitter Into Myspace

By: What Music Makes You Feel Alive Today? « MAKEMEALIVE

What Music Makes You Feel Alive Today? « MAKEMEALIVE — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:44:36 +0000

[...] a lot of talk about movements, genre-bending music and big dreams. When push comes to shove, they can’t figure out what Twitter is and have a hard time realizing that today’s business is only 50% talent. Maybe [...]

By: Marcus Taylor

Marcus Taylor — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:31:38 +0000

Good post Greg, I am relieved that Twitter has disabled all of the bulk follow / unfollow tools and gone to great efforts in the last few months to improve the quality of Twitter and it seems to be working!

Marcus

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Mashable + Music Marketing | Music Marketing - Gen-Y Rock Stars — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:09:14 +0000

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:50:08 +0000

[...] gregrollett Last week I talked about some of the ways to use Twitter and some of the ways not to (like Turning Twitter Into Myspace). The post got a strong reaction on, none other than, [...]

By: Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:07:36 +0000

I understand where you’re coming from. I wonder if you would consider a quick DM with a link to your Twitter tips page and thank the artist for thinking of you. You make solid sense and relationships matter.

Deborah Diak
“The Music Marketing Maven”
http://www.risingstarartists.com

By: gregrollett

gregrollett — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:03:05 +0000

@Wicked D

Thanks for the taking the last 10 Tweet test. Something told me yours would look something like that. Keep up the great work man!

By: gregrollett

gregrollett — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:02:22 +0000

@RL
that’s a great point. Doing some due diligence and research before reaching out always make the conversations flow that much better. You already have a grasp of where you want the chat to go and there are more positives that come out.

Not all marketing is evil however. Permission marketing is the way to go though. Add value and get people into your pipeline to push out content.

By: gregrollett

gregrollett — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:00:29 +0000

@Carmen
And that unfollow comes at a high cost. I’d love to see someone show we a positive return on investment from Twitter spam.

By: Wicked D

Wicked D — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:27:16 +0000

Yep, there’s a reason it’s called ‘building a relationship’. Great post! It forced me to look at my last 10 tweets, as of the time of this comment.

From @Wicked_D
5 were regarding recommendations for people whom I admire
4 were @ replies mostly passing on industry info
1 was a plug for a hip hop/comedy act I manage, but I didn’t ask anyone to ‘check them out’, I simply made a statement about how funny I thought they were w/a link to their website.

This method appears to be working rather well for me!

By: New York Samba School

New York Samba School — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:36:28 +0000

I think you are so right! Your post caught my attention exactly because I am always looking into learn how to use the new social tool better. Some people just do not care about it/ That is why they keep on repeating the same mistake over and over. Congratulation.