I've always been interested in the first editions of the newspapers - in fact, as a student in London I remember my friends used to think I was a bit sad when I'd go out late at night to buy them. More recently, I'd stay up to watch Newsnight to get a quick glimpse of the front pages.
I've found it useful as a programme editor to have an idea in advance about what the papers are leading on. Seeing them the night before gives me just a bit longer to think about which stories we might take on.
I'd had a twitter account for a couple of years but hadn't actually tweeted much until I became Editor of BBC Radio 4's The World at One, The World This Weekend and What the Papers Say. I'd built up a following of a few hundred people who were interested principally in my previews and highlights of the WATO running order (and the occasional gossip from the Today programme green room).
Starting #tomorrowspaperstoday was really something of an accident. The newspapers email us their front pages from about 8pm to use in newspaper reviews. One night, about six months ago, I thought it would be interesting to tweet them. They're sent to us as PDFs, so I used my iPad to take a screen grab and then tweeted that photo.
Marc Settle at CoJo, my erstwhile colleague and friend, asked if I really knew what I was getting into - and said that one of his key warnings on his social media strategy course was about the danger of building up expectation that you can't meet.
But I carried on tweeting them. It was pretty easy and only took a minute or two per front page. I soon realised what Marc meant: an evening out would lead to lots of tweets asking where I was or worrying about my wellbeing.
My Follower numbers started growing dramatically around the time of the super-injunctions debate. One Independent front page - "The law is a farce" - was viewed over 57,000 times.
People asked me on Twitter if I could also tweet the back pages - and I started doing that too; drawing in a new (and very different) audience. Although I've found that the papers aren't as willing to send them to us - and in fact I was asked by The Independent not to tweet its back pages until after midnight.
But it was the phone-hacking scandal that led to #tomorrowspaperstoday really taking off (and my Follower count rising at one point by over 1,000 a day). After I was quoted on the front page of The Guardian website (left) and in The Telegraph Deputy Editor's daily email, one front page was retweeted over 1,000 times.
The Fleet Street Blues website said the #tomorrowspaperstoday service made me one of the ten 'must follow journalists' on twitter. Prominent journalism tweeters like @jonathanhaynes, @indiaknight, @wadds, @simonblackwell and @fieldproducer all sent out nice tweets saying people should follow me. And I regularly receive tweets saying that #tomorrowspaperstoday makes the licence fee worth paying.
I've since been contacted by papers like The International Herald Tribune and Metro which are keen for me to add their front pages to the service.
It still strikes me as odd that I'm often the first person on Twitter to reveal a newspaper's exclusive lead story. It's led to the strange situation of the newspapers themselves retweeting my front pages. I'm sure that's something that won't last - already The Guardian, Telegraph and Independent are starting to tweet photos of their front page too, and @SkyNews and @Politicshome have started a comprehensive front page service on Twitter. I'm sure my wife would appreciate it if @BBCNews could take over doing it from me.
There's no doubt that I do find myself venturing into territory where past WATO Editors wouldn't have trod - the most popular front page (retweeted 1,500 times and viewed over 100,000 times) is "Amy: My boobs will win B Bro." But the comments from my Followers suggest #tomorrowspaperstoday has also drawn new listeners in to The World at One, What the Papers Say and Radio 4 more generally - so it's probably been worth it.
Nick Sutton is Editor of BBC Radio 4's The World at One, The World This Weekend and What the Papers Say.
