The Best of Online Bingo from Your Facebook

Any keen bingo fan knows that the best online bingo brands offer an exciting social as well as gaming experience. Many of the bingo sites we know and love, like Foxy Bingo, Ruby Bingo, etc., provide live chat room facilities and a warm and welcoming bingo community. Increasingly though, the best place to find out about exclusive bingo promotions and prizes, and cement friendships with fellow bingo lovers, is on social media tools like Facebook and Twitter.

If you're tuned in to the regular Twitter updates from the likes of Ruby and Foxy Bingo, as well as Paddy Power and many of the big names in the business, you'll have access to all the very latest news. This includes spontaneous 24-hour bingo promos; special, themed events you might otherwise miss out on; and, for example, bonuses available exclusively to players who access the relevant bingo site from its page on Facebook or its Twitter feed.

Speaking of Facebook, bingo fans have a lot to be excited about there too. In 2011 online bingo was a huge hit for many online gaming providers like William Hill and 888, and membership of their online bingo communities grew massively. So it's no surprise that companies like these are looking for ways to expand their business and offer an even better service to players. In the discussions on this, one theme that has come up again and again is that of letting Facebook users play their favorite bingo games via the famous social media site.

It's not certain what form these bingo games would take, but online bingo experts think the likes of Will Hill, Paddy Power and Bet365 might offer their games on Facebook in play-for-free mode. This would create a number of concrete benefits to bingo players:

• In any part of the world where there is free access to Facebook, players will be able to enjoy online bingo, even in countries were pay-to-play online bingo is banned.

• Players can try out bingo games for free before clicking on a convenient link (sure to be provided!) to move to the real bingo site, where they can play for money - and hopefully win.

• Enhanced options for communicating with other players, making friends, and finding out about bingo tournaments, etc.

Of course you don't have to wait until the bingo games themselves become available; many of the above-named brands already have bustling Facebook community pages where you can keep up-to-date with the latest news and offers.