Blip.fm – Twitter For Music

You may not have heard of Blip.fm, but it’s gaining a real reputation as being the Twitter For Music. With the meteoric rise of Twitter, there are many other sites that are trying to achieve the same effect by making small variations on the Twitter formula. Blip.fm is one of the more successful of these, and it stands a real chance of being the next big thing in social networking.
How Does It Work?
Rather than answering Twitter’s question, “What am I doing?”, users of Blip.fm answer the question “What am I listening to?”. While there are many people who are interested enough in music to use the site just for this, the real secret behind the success of Blip.fm is that you can choose to “listen” to someone, and the site will play all their songs for you as they listen to them. If you Blip all the right songs, you can get yourself a real following, and you have your own virtual radio station. Of course, this works two ways – you are also able to listen to the selections that other people make.
If you are used to using Twitter, you will have no problem using this new social networking site. The two websites look strikingly similar, and both have the stunning simplicity which makes everything so easy to use. This is one of the reasons why everyone refers to Blip.fm as the Twitter for music.
Blip.fm was an offshoot of Fuzz, a site that helps bands communicate with their fans, and it was never expected to be that successful. Now, its popularity is such that Fuzz are focusing almost all of their resources on it.
Blip.fm And Twitter
Although Blip.fm is the Twitter For Music, they know better than to try to compete with Twitter. It comes with options to send out tweets about your Blips, allowing Twits to do online advertising for them. Let’s face it, if you’ve put in the time and effort to build up an army of followers on Twitter, you don’t want to have to start again on another social networking site, do you? If you can get the word out to all of your followers, you can get them listening to your music, and even migrating across to the new site to see what all the fuss is about.
This move has really helped Blip.fm’s popularity, making use of the easy sharing of information on Twitter to spread the word about their own site.
Unfortunately, Blip.fm hasn’t been around for very long yet, so there aren’t as many handy applications and tools like Tweetdeck, but they are taking steps to make it easier for third party companies to develop these tools.
In the twin worlds of social networking and micro blogging, new sites pop up every day that last for a little while and then disappear. This is a site that isn’t going to do that. Blip.fm is here to stay, and it truly is the Twitter For Music.






