Hilary Hahn Quotes

Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I'm doing, but I don't see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.

Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.

I spend three hours a day working on my social network profiles. I think about the right people to tag, the ones who might generate new leads. It's my work, my self-promotion.

It's all about how you use your social platform. Right now, I'm just using mine to empower people, get my entertainment and my news. Other people use their platform for different things.

Don't have just anyone run your social media. I think it's insane when brands or celebrities relegate their social media to an intern or someone who does not know them well.

Facebook and Twitter and Instagram are excellent ways to keep in touch with the audience and maintain your image an actor.

I've never done much to try to build an audience.

With social media, you take the good and the bad of it. You have to make the most of the opportunities. You can use social media to your benefit to expand your character and gets eyes on you and what you're doing.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution of how to interact, promote and share things.

I look at Twitter as brand building.

I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.

Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.

I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.

I write my own tweets.

I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

Oh, tweeting prolifically is the most easy thing in the world. Tweeting prolifically is like somebody saying, 'Boy, you're a really good walker around,' you know. It's not really hard.

People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.

When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and I'd spend all day long fighting with the system of getting things approved and the fact that social media has such a quick turnaround. Things had to be very reactive and instant.

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

I've been on, like, the forefront of social media. I run all my own pages, and this is back to MySpace and answering my own emails in, like, 2006. Even before that, I always had websites with emails that dropped directly to me.