We thought we’d indulge in a bit of a blast about some of the UK’s most popular Social Media meeting places today on talkToshiba – while we prepare the ground for tomorrow’s special feature, profiling one of our favourite presences out in the space.

We’ve been browsing Twitter (you can follow us there for almost instant blog updates if you so desire) and noted a couple of interesting points. Firstly, Karl Goddard who runs the Learning ICT blog, who we can only imagine has picked up perhaps a Satellite P200 and seems particularly happy with his purchase - “now playing with shiny new Toshiba laptop… monster 17″ screen, fullsize kboard im even likin Vista - but no built in web cam - pics later!”

Meanwhile, Usha Vencatachallam too has informed followers via his ‘tweetery’ that he is having fun with Toshiba too “Sony Vaio just upped and died. Toshiba is my new best friend. Making a snap laptop decision is not as bad as I imagined.” John from vivaveracruz however has managed to get his trip back in order, thanks to Toshiba and his sister-in-law. “While our return to New Mexico has been delayed because my new laptop died and needed attending to, I borrowed a fine seldom used Toshiba laptop from my sister-in-law.”

A cursory glance at Facebook reveals 1,441 Toshiba fans keen to express their opinion of the brand – and Wasim Arshad has expressed his thoughts on one model particularly. “I have had my Toshiba Equium M40X-189 laptop for around 3 years now and it has never become physically faulty! It’s brilliant!!”

Finally – does anyone run a Toshiba laptop with Linux? Zeke certainly does, and stumbled upon this fascinating article with advice on just that…

It’s all about micro blogging these days – and with the world flocking in their droves to top site Twitter, we thought that it might be high time to remind everyone that you can follow all of our updates through your Twitter Feed.  

Simply by logging in, popping to this link and following us, you will have headlines, summaries and links to our daily updates delivered directly to you. And that can be no bad thing! Coupled with this, we will be using the Twitter feed to alert folk whenever we get any laptops in to trial – so keep an eye out if you blog, post in forums, or generally occupy the web. 

What’s more, it is a time to celebrate, as we have just reached the landmark of 1,001 Twitter posts – which cheered me no end as I logged in this morning to check the stats. There will be no cake, no candles and certainly no balloons. But we’d still appreciate it if you were to come and follow us on Twitter!