It’s Time to End Podcast Self-Promo on Twitter

Just a small note: a few people got in touch about this article in order to disagree strongly, especially in ways that I think slightly missed the point. So here’s a small follow-up blog to read after, if you are gripped by anger.

I am currently away on a small domestic holiday (is that what you’d call a ‘staycation’?) which involved, at its onset, a three-hour drive on Saturday morning. In order to smooth the boredom of a long drive (long by British standards, I should add; sorry Canadians) I tweeted a call for podcast recommendations.

Now, I’ve done this before, so I knew what would happen.

At first there were a trickle of recommendations from vague acquaintances and other Twitter followers, and then, over the course of the day, a deluge of almost 20 podcasts/podcasters swooping in to recommend their own shows. It is the inevitable consequence of tweeting anything with the word ‘podcast’ and the word ‘recommendation’ in the same sentence. If you are ever looking for a bit of positive affirmation that you are not entirely alone on Twitter, give it a…