Fresh from conquering the US, One Direction have announced their second album Take Me Home.

Band member Louis Tomlinson took to Twitter on Wednesday, cheerily inaugurating the hashtag "#takemehome". The group's fans went duly bonkers with anticipation: at the time of writing, someone is tweeting #takemehome approximately once every 18 seconds. "Can't wait for you to hear it!" Tomlinson chirped. "More news soooon!"

It's less than six months since One Direction released Up All Night in North America, becoming the first British group in history to have their debut album enter the US charts at No 1. The record didn't do quite so well in the UK, when it was issued in November 2011: it climbed only as high as No 2. Up All Night has sold 3m copies worldwide.

The first taste of Take Me Home will come on 1 October, with the single Live While We're Young. The song was written by Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk, the trio who worked on One Direction hits What Makes You Beautiful and One Thing. The album's other contributors reportedly include Ed Sheeran, McFly frontman Tom Fletcher, and producers Dr Luke and Shellback. Earlier this year the Independent reported that Simon Cowell – to whose Syco label the group are signed – had challenged pop's most successful hitmakers to compete for space on the new album.

Though Tomlinson was tweeting the title to his 5.5m followers, the other members haven't been entirely in promo mode. Liam Payne has spent the past couple of days tweeting about his Batman-themed birthday and Harry Styles waxed contemplative: "Just saw a man eating a tin of cat food outside his car," he wrote.