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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Twitter: Possible Chances and Dangers for Artists

As Twitter became extremely popular the last weeks we can have a first look on the advantages for artists:

Possible Chances

-Initiate attention towards your art work world wide

-Post your Art visual to Twitpic and tweet it instantly

-Create and maintain and interact with your audience, with your fans

-Create multiple identies with different Twitter Accounts, for example one in your native language for tweeting your homeland local fans and one in English for your world wide activities

-Follow other Artists, Gallerists, Collectors and various news creators

-Keep a "real time" ongoing art discussion

-Create attention around your favorit art issues

-Let your followers with your projects interact, create art interacting with Twitter

-Use real-time image delivery for your art for example with service like TwiPic

Possible Dangers

- Twitter can be very time consuming

- Twitter is heavily related on the "Now" instead of questions regarding Past and Future

- Twitter may support in its shortness more the dull soap discussions

What do you think ? Lets discuss here or on Twitter.

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