Quite a few of these type posts banded about. But I feel I get a lot out of twitter so I’m always happen to hype it up to anyone who’s willing to listen. Jon Bounds has a good introduction for anyone who’s new to it.

Twitter is what you make of it. For me it’s great. I use an application called Twhirl for the iMac, Tweetie for the iPhone and Twitterberry for the Blackberry. At the moment, I follow 239 people.

The majority of people I follow are to do with music, some artists, graphic designers and relevant and interesting local peeps. When choosing to decide whether to follow someone, I’ll check out their bio (always import to have one & also make sure your status updates aren’t protected), I will usually click on their link so it’s a good tool for driving traffic and raising awareness and I will check out their recent tweets, so if all they talk about is what they’re having for lunch or how many thousand emails they have to get through, I probably won’t follow.

Twitter make it simple to follow/unfollow people, so why not trial them? Happens all the time, nothing personal.

It’s a great tool to connect and find people with similar interests, as a result of Twitter I’ve made some friends and met up with people who perhaps I wouldn’t have had the chance to meet with otherwise.

Can be a great tool for brands – managing exposure, finding out what people are saying, helping those who need it, finding opportunities etc. Like this tweet a few mins ago from @SonicBidsTess

If your an artist and want to gain exposure through Twitter, remember it’s not a one way conversation, don’t just talk about where your touring, mix your personality into it, talk to other tweeters about anything.

I think every single one of my followers are worth connecting with on Twitter, but this a short list of music folk everyone should follow.

• Me! (of course….)
• Mark Mulligan – “Vice President and Research Director with Forrester Research” This guy knows his stuff!
• Mr Trick – forget RSS feeds, he’ll tweet all you need to know about what’s going on in music
• Jonathon Deamer – Lots of things music he be
  
• Fascinated – you know that amazing site The Hype Machine yea? This guy made it
  
• Jonas Woost – Head of music at Last.fm & all round nice guy
• Dave Haynes – One of the Soundcloud crew amongst other things
  
• Andrew Dubber – New Music Strategies
• James Pennycate – One of the guys from Brilliantly Different
• Jon-Paul Waddington – One of the guys from In The City
  
• Andy “CMU” – Music Journalist
  
• Luke Netvalar - lots of interesting tweets with links
• Music Week
  
• Bearded Magazine
  
• Make it in Music
  
• Sonicbids – Tess
• Sonicbids – Benjy
• Spotify
• We7

I think everyone I follow is worth following so check them out! Also, “Gabriel N” has created a google doc list of music folk on Twitter, worth looking up.

Drop me a comment if I’m missing some key people or even for some shameless self promotion