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Alert a Pinner to a Pin

You can let a person know about a pin, repin, or comment that you make, and you can make it happen while you are creating the pin, repin, or comment. You just need to know the person’s name, not the username, and precede it with the @ symbol in a pin description or comment. Pinterest then alerts that person by way of an e-mail message that you have mentioned him. Using the @ symbol also creates a live link that lets other people simply click your friend’s name to go to his profile page.

Alert a Pinner to a Pin

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