Tweets on CD Review

[Guest]

Oh, no. Tweets have now infected CD review. Andrew just announced he was playing a recording of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony and gave listeners 1 minute 20 seconds to tweet a guess what orchestra was performing.

Of course he received not tweets. Please, please, Andrew drop this.....

[french frank]

Oh, no. Tweets have now infected CD review. Andrew just announced he was playing a recording of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony and gave listeners 1 minute 20 seconds to tweet a guess what orchestra was performing.

Of course he received not tweets. Please, please, Andrew drop this.....

I can confirm that the FoR3 preliminary survey results have CD Review and particularly AM, coming out top of the 'Likes' (progs and presenters) while 'tweets' &c have attracted almost 100% unanimity from all, differing only from 'No' to 'NO NO NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!', 'LOATHE', 'HATE', 'DETEST' ....

Hope you'll be backing the winner here, Swanny.

[Black Swan]

I am happy to back the winner on this one, FF.

[Anna]

Aren't tweets merely seen as a way of increasing R3's profile and thereby (possibly) gaining listeners? This morning James Jolly played some Cochereau and at the end read out a listener's tweet which said "it was weird but groovy" So on the tweeter's page, the original tweet "this bolero organ thing @ Radio 3 is kinda weird but groovy" when I looked had been retweeted 6 times and had numerous 'likes' and the tweeter had then tweeted on a Fame at Last webpage that his name had been read out on Radio 3 and presumably this had been retweeted X number of times. Actually there were 2 tweets submitted to R3, the other was similar in wording but that person didn't have as many followers who might have retweeted it ......

So I think, as many people live their life via social media, and it must influence their listening habits, if something gets a lot of retweets, or even starts trending, this is seen as A Good Thing for the station. I think we'll just have to live with it.

[french frank]

I don't think we do have to live with it - unless someone is going to provide evidence that is DOES increase the number of listeners. That merely seems like evidence of someone delighting at having their name read out on the radio. What will that do except (possibly) attract others wanting to have their names read out and report it on Fame at Last?

Who knows, Radio 3 may become the new Trending Youth Station - but what will that actually achieve, other than another station based on tweeters, texters, and the latest pop group that is 'into' classical? And as listening to other programmes goes down because a section of the listenership has departed, those are the programmes that will be next for the axe.

[Serial_Apologist]

Aren't tweets merely seen as a way of increasing R3's profile and thereby (possibly) gaining listeners? This morning James Jolly played some Cochereau and at the end read out a listener's tweet which said "it was weird but groovy"

Definitely someone from the baby-boomer's generation, Anna: who else would write "groovy" today, let alone be able to spell "weird" correctly?

[Stanfordian]

Definitely someone from the baby-boomer's generation, Anna: who else would write "groovy" today, let alone be able to spell "weird" correctly?

Hiya SerialApologist,

In this grand scheme to widen the listenership of the station it puzzles me why anyone would start listening to a radio programme just because one can tweet it. In truth, I am listening to Classic FM more than I ever did, at least its doesn't pretend to be what it's not. Radio 3 is in grave fear of loosing it's stalwart listeners and not gaining any new ones.

[french frank]

Hiya SerialApologist,

In this grand scheme to widen the listenership of the station it puzzles me why anyone would start listening to a radio programme just because one can tweet it. In truth, I am listening to Classic FM more than I ever did, at least its doesn't pretend to be what it's not. Radio 3 is in grave fear of loosing it's stalwart listeners and not gaining any new ones.

And, as I suggested, there's an almost 100% match between those who like CD Review and DETEST tweets 'n texts. If anything could stop people wanting to listen to CDR, tweets would probably do the trick before long. Listener psychology is fascinating: 'Listeners have their reasons which reason knows nothing of.'

[MickyD]

To me it is in just the same vein as those horrendous phone-ins - they turned me off Sunday morning on R3 for good. I want to hear the music, NOT Joe Bloggs calling in as to why such and such a piece is so special to him and his missus. Is it really too much to ask?