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ReverbNation, the leading provider of dedicated music commerce and communication tools, have added a simple yet crucial feature to their roster.  The new optional ‘Auto-Tweet’ feature automatically updates ReverbNation members’ Twitter accounts whenever they post a new song (with a link to play the song), post a blog entry (with a link to the blog), recommend another artist (with a link to the artist’s profile page), and/or add a show to their schedule (with a link to their schedule and tickets).  Given ReverbNation’s strong emphasis on fan relationship management, I think ‘Auto-Tweet’ will be very well received by their userbase of more than 375,000 members.  It may also pose a threat to ArtistData who developed an entire suite of tools around the auto-syndication theme.  Given the popularity of services such as Ping.fm, I expect ReverbNation to extend this offering by allowing its users to synchronize and distribute updates to several social networks and bookmarking portals automatically, not just Twitter.

Related Post: Pixelpipe

My enthusiasm for ArtistData and Ping.fm is well documented on this blog.  Over the weekend, I discovered a new service reminiscent of TwitterFeed (which I use to syndicate posts from this blog to We Are Listening’s Twitter page, my MySpace page and LinkedIn profile) called Pixelpipe.  The service allows you to publish shortened URLs (think of TinyURL on Twitter…) to your audio and/or visual content.  This, of course, has broad appeal but especially useful for artists who wish to ‘send’ their press kit as a PDF file or link to download one or more tracks.  Simply a clean and smart distribution tool for artists and music promoters.