Throughout the week, Astronomy.com posts news stories, observing alerts, blogs, images, podcasts, videos, the latest issue information, and more. It’s not easy to keep up with it all. Our e-mail newsletter collects the week’s stories, blogs, images, podcasts, and videos, and it goes out every Friday. But what if you want to know what’s new on Astronomy.com right now? Starting today, you can “follow” Astronomy magazine and Astronomy.com on Twitter.

By now, many of you have heard of Twitter — the social media program that lets you communicate, in 140 characters or less, what you are doing right now to anyone who signs up to “follow” you. Many people use Twitter to send concise personal updates to friends and family members. The Astronomy magazine staff is going to use it to spread the word about anything new added to Astronomy.com. Each of our Twitter updates (referred to as “tweets”) will include a link to a new or cool item on the site.

To follow Astronomy magazine on Twitter, visit our page at Twitter.com/AstronomyMag. Twitter’s sign-up is quick and painless. After you sign up, click the “Follow” button that appears on the upper left of our page under the magazine cover.

The look of the page is a work in progress, so please pardon our dust.