{"id":4916,"date":"2015-06-04T21:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2015-06-04T21:32:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:32:45","slug":"technology-company-and-musicians-a-love-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2015\/06\/04\/technology-company-and-musicians-a-love-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology company and musicians &#8211; a love relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked at the (German) Wikipedia page of Twitter and found this table there. It&#8217;s pretty self-explanatory, so I don&#8217;t think the German matters.<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting is, that 7 (!) out of the top 10 accounts with the most followers are from musicians. And the tech world keeps telling musicians that their work is a commodity and treats it as basically worthless. Better yet: <a href=\"http:\/\/thetrichordist.com\/2015\/05\/15\/pandora-demands-lower-rates-from-artists-while-playing-bro-ball\/\">they<\/a>\u2122\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thetrichordist.com\/2015\/05\/27\/digital-media-association-dima-always-against-musicians\/\">run<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thetrichordist.com\/2015\/05\/21\/un-airlifts-calculators-clues-to-the-verge-25-million-is-tiny-advance-and-you-missed-real-story\/\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thetrichordist.com\/2015\/05\/16\/howgoogleworks-must-read-buzzfeed-story-on-googles-sleazy-relationship-with-ftc\/\">huge<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thetrichordist.com\/2015\/04\/28\/innovation-did-google-launch-new-astroturf-organization-of-astroturf-organizations\/\">campaign<\/a> to effectively undermine every effort to create a level playing field in the digital world.<\/p>\n<p>But thinking a little longer about this I can sort of understand: it must be a terrible feeling that there are people out there who manage to deeply touch and affect people with a simple song.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Twitter-\u2013-Reichweitenstaerkste-Accounts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4920\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Twitter-\u2013-Reichweitenstaerkste-Accounts-640x168.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter \u2013 Reichweitenstaerkste Accounts\" width=\"640\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Twitter-\u2013-Reichweitenstaerkste-Accounts-640x168.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Twitter-\u2013-Reichweitenstaerkste-Accounts-785x206.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Twitter-\u2013-Reichweitenstaerkste-Accounts.jpg 993w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twitter\">Twitter \u2013 Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked at the (German) Wikipedia page of Twitter and found this table there. It&#8217;s pretty self-explanatory, so I don&#8217;t think the German matters. What I find interesting is, that 7 (!) out of the top 10 accounts with the most followers are from musicians. And the tech world keeps telling musicians that their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[25,87],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestream","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4922,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}