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• Follow us in Twitter!

  February 18, 2009

  The latest internet hype is undoubtedly simple service allowing to post 140 characters about everything one thinks, feels, recommends, dislikes, wonders and endorses. This service is micro-blogging derived from status updates and following what your friends are doing. If still not clear what I am speaking about, here is the hint - Twitter.

  There are thousands of articles in the media about Twitter with x10 advices how to start and succed, so I am not going into it. Just can tell one thing. If you use email, IM and can read&write, you MUST use Twitter.

  PokerNews Also went on twitter some time ago. In the beginning our account @pokernews was registered by some guy who just wrote his email. Probably he wanted to trade the password of this account, so Twitter closed it and gave us the default password in February 4th. Today is February 18th - 2 weeks from the start and today we have 235 followers. That's really good achievement!

  @pokernews provides the information what's interesting in PokerNews group of the sites. There are few Twitter accounts which are automatic generators of the tweets (from RSS feed), but they are not live. Pokernews writes live, reacts to questions, sometimes writes some humour or does not understand jokes (remember, I am not native English speaker), makes lots of grammar mistakes, but it is 100% live. I think this is our advantage and we should exploit it in future. PokerNews is a huge information factory with lots of sites and lots of originally written information, therefore we will always have what to share with all poker lovers .

  Also @pokernews does not spam. There are some sites which provides really shitty content, but advertise it as if it was 8th wonder of the World. Only sometimes we provide links to the news stories about special PokerNews promos - mainly freerolls which are one of the biggest added value promos in the market. Everyone should agree

  Enough boasting. You should be following us in Twitter and will see yourselves. That is really easy and exciting. If you still do not have account, please create one and tell about yourself to all your friends.

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• New features of forum and MY.PokerNews

  August 27, 2007

  You may already know that we have launched some new features in forum and my.pokernews:

  • signature - can be set in my.pn settings http://my.pokernews.com/members/profile/?show=forum

  • post number - you can set how much posts per topic you can see (set in the topic directly or my.pn forum settings)

  • messengers - you can show to all or friends messengers nicknames U use - set in http://my.pokernews.com/members/profile/?show=info

  • room nicknames - you can point what are your nicknames in rooms you play (set in main settings page)

  • online/offline button - you can see if the member is online or offline (red button means offline, green - online)

  • PM member by nickname - you can check your private messages from any pokernews page after login.

  • Social Bookmarks and RSS - now you can bookmark every blog post to any of social bookmarking networks. Also almost all Internet RSS readers are available clicking on RSS subscription icon in the right side menu

  • Online member list - now you can see only members which are currently logged in going to members list and clicking "Online" link in the top - http://my.pokernews.com/members/?show=online

  More to come...

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