The Best Ways To Discover Music Through Twitter
From Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired
Twitter. Love it or hate it, the short messaging network just keeps getting more interesting, with people wiring their brains into it, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom using it to announce his candidacy for the California governorship, and even Oprah recruiting her legion of fans to join up.
The service’s growing fame as a text platform is slightly deceiving. A huge amount of music gets posted to Twitter every single day — the trick is knowing how to find it.
Fine, you say. But why on earth would I use Twitter to discover music when I already have blogs, blog aggregators, interactive radio, iTunes Genius, satellite radio, social networks, file sharing networks, my cousin Larry and thousands of other sources for new music at my command?
Good point. The main reason you should use Twitter to find music anyway is that once you find a like-minded fan on the network, you can follow their feed. If you keep doing this, your Twitter account will develop as a passive music discovery engine. Eventually you won’t need to do much — music will be delivered to you on the proverbial silver platter, courtesy of the thousands (or millions) of people who regularly post music to the network. Continue Reading
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