What is Twitter?

Here at Newsnight, we are using the online service Twitter to send out simple text alerts about upcoming items that you might not want to miss, and programme highlights that you might want to watch again.

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Twitter is an online service for letting people know what you are up to at any time of day or night.

It also allows you to keep track of what other people are up to, either by monitoring their Twitter updates online, or by receiving updates directly to your phone in the form of SMS text messages.

Newsnight and Newsnight's Economics Editor Paul Mason both send out frequent alerts. To automatically receive these updates, you'll need to create your own Twitter account and then sign up to "follow" each of our accounts.

Signing up to Twitter means you are connecting into a community of people who are all keen to let you know what they're up to and provide you with links to other web sites of interest.