Is this the first song to be commissioned via Twitter?  A couple of weeks ago Manchester-based music blogger Justhipper posted a message on Twitter saying:

“Dear Twitter musicians. For my birthday, can somebody write me a bleepy electronic song about robotic pigs driving flying cars?”

Quite why she wanted that particular subject matter I have no idea.  However, always up for a challenge (there’s nothing like a specific brief to concentrate the mind) I decided to take her up on the task.  Well, I missed her birthday by two days, but on Thursday night I turned in my finished MP3.

On Saturday morning it went up on the blog that Justhipper co-runs, The Indie Credential, for free download. The question is, is it the first song ever commissioned via Twitter?  There have certainly been songs written about Twitter (this one for example) but maybe, just maybe, we made a little bit of social media history last week.

If you know different feel free to correct me by leaving a comment below.