{"id":580,"date":"2014-08-11T18:52:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=580"},"modified":"2017-02-28T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:48:15","slug":"9-mistakes-musicians-make-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/9-mistakes-musicians-make-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Mistakes Musicians Make On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a few of the &#8220;9 Mistakes Musicians Make On Twitter&#8221;. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Social networking can be hard. But it&#8217;s also an amazing way to find new listeners for your music and interact with new fans and old&#8230;or piss people off because you don&#8217;t know what the hell you&#8217;re doing. Learning a few rules will help you\u00a0get&#8230;and keep&#8230;relevant followers, and the answers are all pretty much common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Well, they should be. But let&#8217;s face it, most of us would rather play music than screw around with Twitter and Facebook trying to find new fans. But learning how to use these networks&#8230;and the plethora of other social web tools out there&#8230;can turn small amounts of effort into big results.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">IF<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0you&#8217;re careful not to break a few simple rules, you can avoid finding yourself shunned and alone with the spammers and phishermen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/permalink\/2014\/08\/06\/9-mistakes-musicians-make-twitter\">9 Mistakes Musicians Make On Twitter | Digital Music NewsDigital Music News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/DMN2013\/img\/logo.png?resize=372%2C95\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"95\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning a few rules will help musician get&#8230;and keep&#8230;relevant followers on twitter and facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3,231,233,232],"tags":[97,235,245,159,244,243,236,241,242,234,238,240,247,239,237,246],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nonsense","category-information","category-promotion","category-social-networking","tag-twitter","tag-9-mistakes","tag-exposure","tag-facebook","tag-fan-finder","tag-fans","tag-google","tag-indie-music","tag-indie-musicians","tag-musicans","tag-reddit","tag-self-promotion","tag-status","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-tumblr","tag-tweet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":719,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/indie-brew-radio-now-beta-indiebrew-net\/","url_meta":{"origin":580,"position":0},"title":"Indie Brew Radio &#8211; Now in Beta &#8211; IndieBrew.NET","date":"October 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"We just launched a new feature at IndieBew.NET: \u00a0Check out Indie Brew Radio, now in Beta! 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