A great article appeared in the New York Times yesterday about poker\’s relationship with Twitter at the WSOP. Complete with a Joe Sebok interview, the piece examines the impact of Twitter on poker players and reporters.
As a growing number of poker players are beginning to send out short messages to the world via Twitter, existing poker media is being disrupted and the news sites are scrambling to out-compete with each other in responding to the players\’ direct and immediate communication with their fans. Players are reading each others\’ Tweets, too, and that has consequences.
We talked about all this disruption with Joe Sebok, a poker player, the CEO of the Poker Road news site and a man with almost 330,000 people following him on Twitter. All the major poker news sites are racing to integrate Twitter and Sebok says his site isn\’t one of the biggest – but as far as we can tell, Poker Road\’s use of Twitter during the World Series of Poker may be defining the state of the art better than anyone else in the industry.
Nice job, Seebs! PokerRoad Nation deserves credit where it\’s due. (And in our own shameless plug, Pokerati has its own Twitterverse. It\’s no \”nation,\” just a universe-type thing – LOL.)