Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts tagged with twitter
04/20/2011
Atlantic Artists Highlighted on the Twitter Blog
Today Portugal. The Man was featured on the official Twitter blog highlighting their use of the service. In fact, all of the artists mentioned (Paramore, Jay-Z, Chromeo) are part of the Atlantic family. It’s exciting to see how artists really taken to Twitter (and subsequent micro-blogging services) to create real connections and conversations with their [...]
03/28/2011
Must have apps for the iPad 2
It’s thinner. It’s lighter. It’s faster. None of these are the real reason to love the iPad 2. Ultimately as evey device in our lives gets thinner, lighter and faster comparing specs tells you very little. The iPad is the software and these apps are the reason I use my iPad more than my iMac, [...]
03/18/2011
Featured in Billboard’s “Music-Industry Characters You Need To Follow”
Today I was selected as one of 140 people from the music industry for Billboard’s “Music-Industry Characters You Need To Follow” writeup. They described me as “VP of direct-to-fan creative and technology at Atlantic Records. Design. Tech. Apple.” I’m among some great company and am proud to be included. Rather than describe the list for [...]
01/28/2011
CodySimpson.com Twitter Application Launch
Yesterday we launched a new section of the Cody Simpson website where fans can interact via Twitter with each other and with Cody. Fans can easily follow or read tweets from Cody, Cody’s team or other Cody fans with the ability to filter them by hashtag. Fans can also tweet, reply and retweet without ever [...]
10/08/2010
Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious + Instapaper
I’ve tweeted about it, told everyone I know, and am now writing a blog post about it. That’s how great Packrati.us is. I’m not sure if I’m the standard use case for Twitter, but ultimately Twitter is a replacement for my RSS reader. Google Reader failed for me, it was all business, and Facebook is [...]
08/28/2010
Foursquare and Atlantic Records
Two months ago, we launched 10 mobile websites for Atlantic artists. We’ve added more sites to that roster and are launching some exciting new location specific features for fans on the go. Fans can check-in to Foursquare via our artist’s mobile (or desktop) websites on their phones. Each show has a unique Twitter hash tag [...]
08/26/2010
Who Should You Unfollow on Twitter?
There are dozens of sites that tell you who to follow, but the most useful Twitter tool I’ve found in months tells you who to unfollow. Manage Flitter analyzes the people you follow on Twitter and allows you to select and batch unfollow based on criteria you set. You can analyze who doesn’t follow you [...]
05/25/2010
3OH!3 Twitter Promo
Today we launched a social media campaign using Twitter to promote the preorder for the new 3OH!3 album Streets of Gold. Fans who tweet a link to the preorder page get their Twitter avatar displayed on the 3OH!3 homepage. Fans can Tweet as many times as they want, and only get pushed off the homepage [...]
04/15/2010
Twitter launches @anywhere
Yesterday Twitter launched it’s @anywhere service which makes integrating most Twitter functions as simple as adding a few lines of Javascript code. You can easily: Auto-link @usernames Create Hovercards for @usernames Create follow buttons that don’t require users to leave your site Add a “Tweet Box” which allows users to tweet without leaving your site [...]
05/08/2009
How to use Twitter’s RSS Feeds in Flash without the Twitter API
Due to security changes by Twitter, Flash files not residing on the Twitter.com servers cannot directly access the RSS feeds of Twitter users. I’ve seen dozens of posts around the net regarding these changes and found a simple way to get around the restrictions using php. The issue – Flash cannot pull data from a [...]
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