My RTtuesday contest

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
by Mark Carras

So I have an idea. We have all heard of Follow Friday and Music Monday on Twitter, right? Well what about RT Tuesday? A day about nothing more than helping others get the word out! Now I know it takes a lot to get a new trend on Twitter started, so how about this. I will Re-Tweet a few “tweets” every couple hours on Tuesday.

How will I pick which ones to RT? Well I have a few rules. To keep track of people playing this new game of sorts I ask that you use one hash tag #RTtuesday. I also ask that you put @MarkCarras in there so I can just go to that section of my profile. Third, I only care about tweets about music. Guitar based music to be exact. This can be bands wanting their websites promoted, news stories about a band you love, a music video on YouTube (or some other known video hosting location), an article on your website about a band, or whatever else. Just as long as it is about music. No websites whose main purpose is to sell though. That’s not an article or helping a band. It’s spam and I don’t care about that crap.

I know I haven’t been doing #musicmonday or #followfriday much, but to be honest I notice almost nothing from those days. People have become jaded about them. They will pimp out a friends profile, but how many follow someone because of that? Because #RTtuesday is about compelling content I think people will care much more. So who’s in?