Jimmy Eat World has just launched an innovative new site for its American tour that uses a clever implementation of Twitter to give fans an easy way to chat about each upcoming concert. To use the system, simply send a tweet to @jimmyeatworld, followed by the date of the upcoming concert you’ll be attending. Here are the complete instructions:
Tweet @jimmyeatworld #YYYYMMDD (where YYYYMMDD is the date of the show). For example, @jimmyeatworld #20090223 can’t wait to see you in New York!
Forums related to individual shows are nothing new – many artists homepages and fan sites feature boards dedicated to helping fans connect and talk about upcoming and recent concerts. But these generally require users to sign up for accounts, and they don’t really work well for ongoing conversations during the show itself. The new Twitter system is much more accessible (assuming you have a Twitter account), and also lends itself to real-time chats.
Tweets pertaining to each show are separated and presented on their own pages, making it easy to see who will be going and what people have been saying about the concert. Because the site is so new only a few dozen tweets have been saved, but the stream could be used in any number of ways, from offering parking tips to chatting during the show itself. It’s a cool system, but it could probably use some work – for one, each hash tag weighs in at nearly 25 characters, which would be frustrating to enter multiple times (I’d prefer it if every show used an easy abbreviation like #sf).
And while this is by no means the first system to use Twitter to let users submit content (Techmeme just launched one last week), it’s definitely another sign that the service is going increasingly mainstream.
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Very clever. I am sure we’ll see more and more companies, groups, bands, artists etc to adopt the open approach that twitter provides to set up adhock conversations.
for all you fans out there… now some more people see why internet and sites like twitter are a blessing
This is quite innovative indeed
This is another great use of Twitter.
The success of technology is to some extent related to how innovative user will be. Initially, no one used YouTube to be launching pad for their funnies home videos . But when innovative users did so it caught on like wildfire.
Agreed man. Wish i thought of this sooner!
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you guys are improving this is like the only twitter post of the day. with practice you guys may get it down to 1 every 3 days then with more practice 1 every week then more practice 1 twitter post a month. off to a great start.
Good work, keep your work improving.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out we did this with REM this summer, but did specific tags for each show (ie, rembowl = Hollywood Bowl): http://tour.remhq.com
“but the stream could be used in any number of ways, from offering parking tips to chatting during the show itself”
You’re kidding right? Parking tips? Blasting out tweets during a rock show? That is the epitome of lame.
As far as I can tell, this set up is no good. First, users don’t sign up for the JEW site … good for users, bad for JEW … emails are valuable. Second, the conversation isn’t really taking place on the JEW website. It is conceivable that users would see each other on this “forum” and continue their conversations via Twitter, opting not to do so with the JEW Twitter feeds. A simulated community is no community at all. Third, JEW doesn’t own the data. Twitter could take it all away.
What we have here is a cheap way to get a message board up and running, but there are other cheap solutions that would actually help foster a community and establish business goals.
How is this innovative? This has been going on forever. Instead of the usual message board format, have just 1 page with all the posts and threads
There’s just too much of tweeter posts these days on Techcrunch.
When’s the fever gonna come down?
DOES ANYONE IN TC OWN STOCK IN TWITTER??????
It seems that this same effect could be created by using facebook connect or one of the other similar services on the site.
I’d rather visit the bands tour page instead of typing a 25 character tag in twitter.
Either way it’s a creative idea and I give credit where it’s due.
Check the “login” link. We’re completely integrated with RPX.
And you can sync your tweets to another account, like Facebook.
Thank you for showing me the light! In that case my only suggestion would be to make that more prevalent on the site, I’m sure I’m not the only one who missed it. Thanks Lee.
Def a good call. Thanks
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Interesting idea .. just tweeted about it
This is insane…ly brilliant. I signed up with Twitter a couple of months ago and wasn’t sure whether it was beautimous or a big waste of time. Obviously it’s the marketing web-nectar of the gods. Nice work Jimmy, Twitter, and everyone else that’s doing good with that bird site.