Today Snow Vandemore (follow her @snowvandemore) tells us about how she connects with other music loving Twitter users through blip.fm.
I don’t care who you are or what you do, everyone has a song in their heart.
Country; rap; hip-hop; rock; metal; blue-grass; 60s-, 70s-, 80s-gold — we all can identify with some music genre.
Have you reached out to like-minded Tweeple via your music? I have and must tell you, I’ve met some very interesting, diverse and cool people via blip.fm.
The written word is fine for communicating, but music is the international language. You may not be a Shelley, or a Wadsworth, or Vonnegut. Who is? Music can speak for you like nothing else can. For example,
Springsteen’s “Nebraska” talks about serial killer Charlie Starkweather’s rage through Nebraska in 1957. Steppenwolf’s “Riders In The Storm” speaks about my days (and nights) as a biker babe. Vanilla Ice even has something to contribute in “Ice, Ice, Baby” — “collaborate and listen.”
I joined blip.fm on New Year’s Eve, 2008. The great thing about blip.fm is that you can search for your favorites, view others’ favorites to try something new, and post your song and a tweet on Twitter, Facebook, your blog, or wherever the platform currently allows.
Here’s the beauty — I’ve met a hardware store owner in Indianapolis, a modern-day Lothario in Belize, a very cool retired gentleman from Ceres, CA, to name a few. My life has been enlightened in some way or another by connecting with these people through music. We share a common bond and now we know it. That’s very cool.
If you are searching for a way to find new tweeps to follow, try blip.fm. You’ll discover new music, remember old favorites, and find interesting people to follow. It’s a win/win/win no matter how you slice it.
I generally limit my twitter “blips” to Sunday mornings — I don’t want to create static or noise during the week when most tweeple I follow are focused on work-related issues. That’s just being polite. And anyone who follows me knows, I’m all about politeness. Ahem.
Give blip.fm a try. Even if you don’t use it to broadcast your musical heart via Twitter, which is certainly an option, you might just run into a few of your fellow tweeple who enjoy the same kind of music as you. And that is a very cool concept.
@Rarst
I’ve recently unfollowed some people on twitter who had joined blip and covered my timeline with bursts of music tracks I have no interest in.
It may be good way to connect with people on music topics but it’s “good” to disconnect with others.
@ScottWilliams
(click, click, click…) That’s the sound of mr clicking to go check out blip.fm
@HollowMarkeD
Blip.fm is fantastic, but if you’re worried about flooding your twitter stream with blip tracks, just put a ! before the blip. You can’t blip.fm for not making the option a default, its been a great case study of how a startup can use twitter to market itself.
@webmove
yep!! i agree, music is the language
blip.fm/daniello and a nice weekend ping to you
@ahsimpson
Blip.fm is a great “timesuck”
Personally, I blip whenever and wherever as i’d rather share, and even better, listen to a new song i might not have heard before than read a retweet or link to a blog i allready have on my RSS feed.
I guess its a perspective thing – i think if you’re using twitter as a work tool – blip is not for you, but it you’re using twitter as a social tool – whats more social that “hey – check out thsi awesome song that’s stuck in my head”?
@mikiesoft
Excellent article about music and Twitter. As I follow other Tweeps with the same musical interests, my followers are growing daily. Events like concerts and trade shows are also a great way to meet new people, because the Twitter activity peaks around that show or event.
@openspirit
Blip.fm is new and can embed itself inside social networks like orkut and facebook. That way many people will actively get involved.
One more service like this is i-like. Which is available as open social application on orkut social network. It shares your favorite music tracks with your friends on orkut.
@thebenchs
Hey cool but i was a little aware about use blip but i think a gonna vie it a try.
Thank you for you post.
@dougontrack
I like the fact that BlipFm integratea with facebook.
@cbedon
I love this, I have the plug0in for aim, to show what song I am currently listening to as well. I love the intagration factor in this. Nice way to network with people that might have the same preference as yourself.
@Hollywoodlvwork
I was just there thanks to a tweet from @driis. Gonna sign up! Great tool!
@diolt
i recently replied all my 122 private messages which i kept ignoring ..my bad