You can now find me at www.twitter.com/DaryleDickens or @DaryleDickens. I have been on Twitter for over a year now but decided to create a separate account just for this blog. My plan is to be selective about who I follow and only focus on connecting with artists who use Twitter. After further review I have decided that I do not want to try and maintain two accounts.
These days Twitter is the shiniest object to drop in the murky waters of the internet. Recently it has reached a tipping point and has been experiencing huge growth. This has tons of folks scrambling to make money from Twitter, by writing books about Twitter, creating webinars and classes, writing software that will give you more followers, the list goes on and on. It also has a ton of folks scratching their head about Twitter. Which leads us to the real question for this palaver is how can Twitter help an artist?
First and for most it can help you connect with people that you would otherwise never be able to connect with. Imagine your at a sold out event in a huge staduim that seats hundreds of thousands of people. All of them conversing with those around them. Now imagine your able to search those conversation or hear when specific words or topics are spoken. Then imagine you are able to instantly move next to people who are conversing about something you are interested in or can help with and join their conversation. That is one way you can view Twitter.
If your an artist who blogs (and you should be) Twitter is another place to share your blog postings. Another outlet for your feed.
And the thing that I don’t hear people willing to admit is that Twitter is just fun. It is a fun distraction. It is easy to get caught up in the stream and jump from one link to another. Or to throw out random thoughts and see who responds.
I want to end by saying that you don’t have to be on Twitter, which is something I hear people saying these days. If your curious check it out. Sign up, follow some people, spout your random nuggets of wisdom, wit, and insight and see what happens. And don’t worry about how many followers you do or don’t have. If you keep tweating they will come.
I’d love to hear from artist who have Twitter experience. Please comment on how you use it and how it has or hasn’t helped your art.
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