Financial Planner Online is now live on Twitter. It can be found tweeting all the latest news including daily news alerts at @FPM_Online.

Followers can expect to receive all the latest member news about the IFP as well as major financial and Financial Planning stories from our website, Financial Planner Online.

The new profile complements the feed from the @IFP_UK.

It will also be tweeting in the build-up and throughout the upcoming Financial Planning Week on 21-27 November so followers can see how their peers are promoting Financial Planning and get ideas for their own businesses.

As well as for receiving news, it’s a great way for followers to give Financial Planner their opinions on major stories or to tell us what they think of the magazine and website.

Twitter is a form of social media which has seen a surge in popularity in recent years and is a great source for keeping up to date with news and making contact with fellow advisers.

It is a microblogging website enabling users to send and receive messages of 140 characters. Around 65m tweets are sent each day around the world.

If you are already on Twitter, search @FPM_Online and say hello to us. If not, then now is the time to sign up for free at twitter.com.

All you need to do is sign up to Twitter and then sign up for our news feed. Both are free.