Playlist Research Part 1

for the class playlist, as a class we decided to split our research into different area's. The research i conducted was how we can engage the widest audience for our music on social media. More specifically on Twitter. Twitter is a great place for our class playlist because it comes with a lot of exposure. you can talk directly to other users through tweets which gives you complete freedom within 140 characters. this is also great because you as an artist are able to connect with you're followers because you can be yourself and show you're personality. twitter also allows you to share and reply to other people's posts and tweets. this is great because you can give you're opinion on certain topics which will help you engage with you're audience or you could be showing you're audience something important or something that they could relate to. All of these things are very important when it comes down to exposure because if you become more consistently active doing these things then you gain more and more followers and you're content is more likely to be shared around which will build yore fanbase and allow you to receive exposure.

I also did some more research and found a great article on how to get started when you're trying to promote you're music on Twitter

Music Promotion For Twitter

I found this article very helpful because it gave me a wide variety of different ways in which I can improve my effectiveness of promotion on twitter. most of the points relate to the fact that you have to be consistent and keep you're account active, which is the main thing i'm going to focus on. when I promote my music on twitter I will focus on tips 1, 5 and 12. I have also learnt that social media currently heavily influences my target audience so using social media is the most effective way for me to promote