Muse

Funny - I was chatting to a couple of friends on Twitter the other day about the new profile editor MySpace has implemented. I thought it was pretty cool, but the opinion I was getting back is that it's too late to save MySpace by making it look prettier.

While it's still expected that a band has a presence on MySpace, how long before that all changes? And is Twitter looking for bands to defect to their service as a new way of interacting with fans?

Biz Stone, one of the founders of Twitter, has published a set of tips showing bands how they can use Twitter to engage with their fans. The tips are published as part of an interview with Billboard.

On top of that, artists are now starting to use Twitter as a direct line to their fans. Acts as diverse as Mariah Carey and Muse have just announced their new album titles using the medium. Makes me wonder if the press aren't a little bit put off by Twitter's ability to get previously exclusive announcements like this.