\nI wasn’t about to write this post without using Twitter myself, so on I
\nwent, last Friday morning. I liked designing my little page
\n(obviously), I liked having a forum to mention that I was excited to
\nmeet Thomas Cott<\/a> at The Chase
\nBrock Experience the night before. Oooo Matt from Carnegie HALL is
\nFOLLOWING me. My hero! A friend in the wilderness! I start following
\nHilary, Gabriel and The King’s Singers and wait about 10 minutes for
\nthem to notice me (Hilary and The King’s Singers still do not care
\nabout my Tweets. I find this awkward.) By 7:30pm, I was unimpressed.
\nWhy were my clients not @thelateshowwithdavidletterman, yet?? I’m
\nbored; let’s take this baby out for a spin! My client Sondra had gone
\nthrough a series of unfortunate ordeals over the past few days that I
\nthought were media-worthy. Surely the New York Times<\/i> blog ArtsBeat<\/i> has a Twitter account. <\/p>\n
At that point I’d been on Twitter for, oh, eight hours. So I tried it again yesterday:<\/p>\n My antics aside, real live For the Publicists, we have:<\/b> And for the Journalists, we have:![\"SondraTwitter.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/SondraTwitter.jpg\")
I
\nhad this drink at the Dove Parlour in the West Village once that
\nsupposedly had absinthe in it. Everything I know about absinthe I
\nlearned from Moulin Rouge<\/i>, so I sat on a barstool waiting for
\nTinkerbell to fly out and summon me, all the while warning my friends
\nthat I might start to act crazy. <\/i>Posting the above Tweet was
\nbasically the same: lots of devilish anticipation with zero result. At
\nleast this didn’t leave a nasty licorice taste in my mouth. After a
\nhalf hour I e mailed a contact at the Times<\/i> and explained the Sondra situation, and a blurb was in Arts, Briefly on Monday. Who says e mail is dead<\/a>? (Did everyone notice that was the Most E-mailed Story on the Wall Street Journal<\/i> website for about two days?) <\/p>\n![\"EricTwitter.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/EricTwitter.jpg\")
Ever
\nso slightly more success! (Although not actual success, because Eric’s
\nconcert isn’t getting reviewed.) No response on Twitter, but I did hear
\nfrom someone that no one would be reviewing the concert. But again,
\nthat was via e mail about other work matters, not a dedicated response
\nto my Twitch. I didn’t expect a dedicated response; I don’t know what I
\nexpected. Tinkerbell again, probably.<\/p>\n
\nclassical music publicists do interact with real live classical music
\njournalists very day. Since Friday is Interview Day here on Life’s a Pitch, <\/i>we’ll hear from the following publicists and journalists about how they use the Lord Twitter tomorrow.<\/p>\n
@cjpr<\/a>: Christina Jensen, Christina Jensen PR
@dotdotdottweet<\/a>: Steven Swartz, DotDotDot Music
@SarahBaird<\/a>: Sarah Baird, Boosey and Hawkes
@BklsweetMedia<\/a>: Amanda Sweet, Bucklesweet Media
@CarnegieMatt<\/a>: Matt Carlson, Carnegie Hall
@glennpetry<\/a>, @seanmgross<\/a>, @PhilipWilder<\/a>: Glenn Petry, Sean Gross and Philip Wilder, 21C Media Group
@mlaffs<\/a>: Maura Lafferty, New Century Chamber Orchestra<\/p>\n
<\/b>@nightafternight<\/a>: Steve Smith, New York Times<\/i>, Time Out New York, <\/i>et al.
@anastasiat<\/a>: Anastasia Tsioulcas, Gramophone<\/i>, Billboard<\/i>, et al.
@gsandow<\/a>: Greg Sandow, Wall Street Journal, ArtsJournal <\/i>et al.
@sethcolterwalls<\/a>: Seth Colter Walls, Newsweek,<\/i> et al.<\/p>\n