As a result I now have a number of followers on Twitter including members of the public, students, diplomats, business people and opinion formers.

If all the above makes sense, you are probably already signed up to the Twitter micro-blogging site and following people or organisations of interest to you.

Many well-known figures from British Foreign Secretary William Hague (@WilliamJHague) to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (@foreignoffice) and from Barack Obama (@BarackObama) to Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5), plus many non-celebrities and organisations such as the BBC or the Economist, tweet regularly.

Signing up is free and easy: just go to the link above. If you want to follow me, either search for "KyivUKAmbo" which is my twitter name or click on @KyivUKAmbo, and hit "follow".

P.S. you can also follow and ‘like’ us on Facebook too.

Leigh Turner has been the British Ambassador to Ukraine since June 2008. You can read all his blog entries at blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/turnerenglish (in English) or blogs.fco.gov.uk/roller/turner/ (Ukrainian)