Twitter Flow - #thebeatles experiment

I was overwhelmed with choice when searching my topic #thebeatles on twitter. I narrowed it down to recent trends, one of which was the price producers of Mad Men paid to use "Tomorrow Never Knows" in the latest episode - $250,000USD (Epstein, 2012). After finding a tweet already on the topic, I have re tweeted rather than start a new tweet. Music by the Beatles is notoriously difficult to license. Proof is in the pudding, when my husband uploaded our wedding to YouTube for international friends and family to watch, YouTube promptly blocked any downloads due to The Beatles playing in the background, so this should be interesting to follow the reaction.

Mad Men producers pay $250,000 to use Beatles song in last Sunday's episode: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/how-mad-men-landed-the-beatles-all-you-need-is-love-and-250000/

Another recent topic is the premier of "The Beatles: The Lost Concert", the latest documentary following the 1964 performance from the Washington Coliseum (staff reports, 2012). I have since tweeted a link to this article:

http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/stcharles/newsnow/x1266596831/-The-Beatles-The-Lost-Concert-documentary-to-premiere-at-Charlestowne-18-movie-theater-in-St-Charles New documentary for fans to enjoy #thebeatles

I'm hoping by including #thebeatles, it will generate some activity.

Its worth pointing out that in the 30 minutes I have had the # search open on twitter with the keywords "thebeatles" a further 99 new tweet mentioning #thebeatles have occurred. A quick scan of the topics show over half the tweets relate to the Mad Men topic.

Lets see how the activity from my tweet and retweet flows from now?

Epstein, E. A (May 8, 2012) Mail Online: How Mad Men Paid $250,000 - 5 times more than any other song. Retrieved from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141092/How-Mad-Men-paid-250-000-license-The-Beatles--FIVE-times-song.html (on May 8, 2012)

Staff Reports (May 7, 2012) My Suburban life: ‘The Beatles: The Lost Concert’ documentary to premiere at Charlestowne 18 movie theater in St. Charles. Retrieved from http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/stcharles/newsnow/x1266596831/-The-Beatles-The-Lost-Concert-documentary-to-premiere-at-Charlestowne-18-movie-theater-in-St-Charles (on May 8, 2012)