Another question- did you gain your notoriety from your being on the label or were the fans there before? I think for a lot of artists a label (a good one) is able to provide the means and the contacts to get done that which the indie artist is unable to do. I feel like there needs to be some synergy there somewhere.

But I guess it ultimately depends on your expectations as an artist and the money it takes to keep you going- and it sounds like you have that going for you, so then I wish you well in your label firing!

Instead of coming across as a paranoid and demanding whiner and explaining what Twitter – in an obviously condescending way, by judging how you refer to her/him as “the so-called head of digital media” – is, you could have encouraged the person and engaged in an informative and positive dialogue.

Maybe that information about whether it has caught on or not was not intended as a brush-off, but a matter of speech in what could have been a conversation. Maybe she/he had a bad day; having been told about an illness, quarreling with the boss, or maybe even being occupied with other stuff than something that is relatively more valuable to the long-term growth (Twitter may eventually die, and the music industry is still more valuable than it was before the CD format was introduced, so stop complaining.)

Or maybe they were just tired of dealing with you (or other similar thinkers), encouraging you to become insulted so they won’t have anything more to do with you.

There is a reason why Roadrunner does things the way they do, and it’s their right to make their priorities. They have created a lot more success than you and you obviously should have done more research before you made the decision to sign the contract.

You clearly have a responsibility to work together with your label. It’s not a one-way street. Now you are just projecting your own bad decision upon them.

You are right about the bottlenecks coming down, but one day you may need a middleman to organise real-life stuff (merchandise, concerts), pay bills etc.

From how you come across in this publicly disgraceful way, I am not sure I ever want to be that middleman. Even though I am also actively using Twitter and other social networks.