Twitter is a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now. More and more organisations are using Twitter to let people know what is happening. Here you can get, on one page, the titles of all the latest news and blogs from all your favourite organisations and people without having to trawl page after page

You will need to go to the Twitter homepage and create an account for yourself, ours is AGILPSSIG, which is normally written @AGILPSSIG when using twitter so we know we are being talked about. Once you have a user name, then start to search for people and organisations to follow. This information is on their website when you click a small blue square with a lower case t on it: (if they have one of course!)

You can find some of our favourites by looking at our profile and seeing who we are following. But of course the more you follow, the more you have to read, which is what we are here for - to filter out the gems. However as we are currently a random mix of diamonds in the rough we welcome your comments on what you think of our tweets! (don't you hate people who mix metaphors?) The tweets are the short messages, links and headlines we send out. They have to be less than 140 characters, so you wont have much to read to get a quick view of whats new. Of course you may wish to add others that we don't follow, such as your local pub or even CERN.

Once you start to get the hang of it, you may try to find a twitter app for your phone - there are many around, but for the iPhone check out twitteriffic which is free, as many of them are, or Android phones have a Twitter tool already built in.

Then sit back and wait for the news to come to you!