If you have no idea what that means, and most people probably don't, then you are not quite ready to use the Telegraph's latest Web offering, now available at http://twitter.com/nashuatelegraph

Twitter.com is one of the latest and most hyped Web 2.0 social networking services to hit the internet recently. In a nutshell, it allows you to create a network of friends with whom you can share short messages via cell phone, IM or a Web interface. It is almost like creating a listserv for cellular phone text messaging.

The prevailing use of the tool seems to be people sending notifications of their current location and activity so friends (and strangers) can keep up to date.

The Telegraph is testing out the service as an alternative to the RSS feeds or Mobile text alerts we currently offer. Starting last Sunday, whenever we publish a breaking news update to the site, a copy of that item is automatically sent to our Twitter account, in an SMS (short messaging for cell phones) friendly format.

If you sign up for a free Twitter account and make the Telegraph a friend, you can receive notification of those updates via cell phone, IM or on the Web directly. We have built the notifications to work best with your cell phone - as the embedded links in the messages will take you to the full article on our mobile web site.

So - do we expect people really will use this new tool? Maybe, maybe not, that is part of the fun and the challenge of innovation. But, it is part of our larger effort to give you the news when and where YOU want it, not just on the Web or at the end of your driveway at 6 a.m.

Let us know if you do use Twitter and please make us a friend. :-) But, also let us know what other tools and services you use on the Web, and where you want to get your news.

UPDATE: Read an article about Twitter (which mentions the Telegraph) at the Newspaper Association of America's Digital Edge Blog.