Hello
We're TYOC a collective of techies in the North West who build things on the internet. We're interested in things that extend the visibility of government activity and data on the internet.
We're big fans of Twitter, and we really like the way some MPs are already using Twitter to communicate directly. See Tweetminster to find them!
We'd like to encourage all our MPs and elected representatives to use Twitter.
Rather than just waiting for this to happen, we thought we'd setup Twitter 'holding' profiles for all MPs that don't currently use the service, and make the profiles a bit more useful by hooking up automatic updates from Hansard via TheyWorkForYou. This should prove to be a useful and interesting way to get the things our MPs say in Parliament into a Twitter stream.
What we'd really like of course is real, live MPs to use Twitter, so we really just want to give these Twitter accounts to the MPs to use.
MPs: Claim your Twitter account
If you're an MP with a holding twitter account, we'd be very happy to hand over the 'keys' - please email us from your House of Commons email account, and we'll mail you right back (to verify you are the MP) and we'll send you the username and password for the account.
Success!
Nearly 4,700 people have started following their MP's and some MP's have started claiming their accounts - YAYY!
- Tim Farron (subsequently deleted)
- Rosie Cooper
- John Leech
- Barbara Keeley (subsequently deleted)
- Tony Lloyd
Recent Press
Friday 26th Feb, 2010
MPTweets was mentioned in the House of Commons on Thursday 25th February by Janet Anderson MP. Here's the video of our moment of glory:
As explained above, we set-up MPTweets to "extend the visibility of government activity and data on the internet." We want MP's to take control of the accounts we have created so they can communicate with their constituents in an accessible and personal way.
Here are some of the news articles:
