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How To Use Twitter To Promote An Album Or Tour

3 Rules & 2 Tools For Twitter Success There's no denying that Twitter use is exploding (even @hypebot has 6400+ fans) or that it should be a part of an. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/14/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Follow Hypebot On Twitter, Email, RSS

Join the growing Hypebot tribe at twitter.com/hypebot. In addition to our regular posts, I also tweet breaking industry news and observations, poll readers, get quotes and research stories. You can. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/10/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
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AOL Says Bye Bye Bebo

AOL says it will sell or shut down social networking site Bebo in 2010, just 2 years after buying it for $580 million. Bebo has lost 45% of its unique. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/07/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (4)
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Trick Out Facebook Band Pages For $1.99 A Month

BandPage Plus is an upgrade from the free BandPage Basic Facebook app that we wrote about recently  Fans are able to listen to a band’s music via a Soundcloud player. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/07/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Follow Hypebot On Twitter Today And Win!

Sign up  to follow Hypebot on Twitter today @ http://twitter.com/hypebot and you could win either Seth Godin's new book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? or Larry Harris' And Party Every Day:. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 04/06/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Twitter Redesigns Home Page, Shows Top Tweets

The second "new" Twitter home page in  just a few months adds top tweets that update every few seconds. It also highlights a random sampling of suggested sources. Hover over. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/31/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
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YouTube Continues Page Upgrades

YouTube has been testing page design upgrades and last week added a highlights view for comments that summarizes top rated comments, uploader comments and responses that can be drilled into. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/29/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Improve Your Facebook Pages With RootMusic

RootMusic enables the seemless creation of robust Facebook band pages and then allows fans to add thew artist as a tab to their own existing Facebook Page. And unlike standard. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/12/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Guest Post: With Mixtapes & Social Media, Is The Album So Far Gone?

Alex Mann is the director of Trendrr, a business intelligence platform for social and digital media. You can read more by Alex on his blog here and follow him on. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/08/2010 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (22)
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No More Social Media For American Idol Contestants

At about 6PM ET on March 3rd, according to the Wall Street Journal, all Twitter, Facebook and MySpace followers of individual American Idol contestants were sent the same message: “Thanks. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/08/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (7)
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