Twitter Lists:

Before I say anything about lists, the most important part (trust me) is selecting proper list catagories, and doing this right from the start. It's not fun to change or consolidate your lists down the line when you have already established them.

The first tool I'm going to give you a black belt in, are lists. These are absolutely amazing for organising large groups of people into individual streams. As a musician you may wish to start lists such as; festivals, venues, music supervisors, record labels, media outlets, podcasts, and fellow musicians. These are some of the private lists I have put together which help keep track of my options, and not miss out on important tweets.

I have also broken down many of the small cities around my area into individual Twitter list. Anyone in the cities that share their location I add to these lists and then I know I have a small demographic specific to that area when I book a gig there. This is valuable when it comes time to play a gig I will mention some of the people in the area ask what they're doing see if they like to come to get some live music! This works the same for searching the city name and saving the search. We'll get in the searching on Twitter little later on this blog.

Many of the twitter apps on the market allow you to use tons of lists options, I like Tweetbot which allows me to view each of my lists as separate streams. Another great app for organizing your lists on the regular is Twlist. I find this app a fast way to add or remove people from your lists or consolidate lists as you move forward (which can be daunting as I mentioned above).

Productive Twitter Search