Twitter has been named by some as the next huge thing on the internet and I think that's right. But if you haven’t heard of Twitter, that’s ok. As with most dot com start-ups these days the initial growth is fuelled by Silicon Valley geeks and Tech bloggers. However in the last month or two, Twitter has started to spread into other areas and has seen particular growth with food bloggers.

So what is Twitter? Twitter is social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" to your friends or followers. Twitter is great for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing. Your friends simply choose to follow you, then they’ll get updates as you update Twitter.

One of the great features of Twitter is that you don’t have login via your web browser and add your update. You can login via your mobile phone, send an SMS to twitter and it updates. Your “Followers” can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application, such as Tweetfox which is add-on to my Firefox browser. I also automatically add my website’s RSS feed directly into my Twitter account using Titterfeed.

It's not just people that are joining Twitter, even companies are jumping on the bandwagon. Take for example CNN which now pushes their news every hour through Twitter.

So if you start following me on Twitter, not only will you get my latest updates or “Tweets” you’ll also get my latest recipes, videos, blogs and anything else I post on my blog.

So start following me today.