List of UK MPs on twitter
I just spent several hours building a list of MPs on twitter by harvesting, cross-tabulating and advanced munging of various lists on twitter.
Yes, I know it’s already been done by tweetminster and there are lists on listorious, probably elsewhere too.
But there are none that I know of that are freely available, which are amenable to inserting into a database for twitter-bot magic, nor which connect to any other online profiles of MPs – I use the public whip ids from MySociety’s parlparse project.
Linked data, innit?
There are bound to be errors and omissions, so let me know if you have any corrections and I’ll update. And if there’s someone else doing this better, I’ll gladly defer to them.
Do what you want with this data – hell, you could even republish it in RDF if you want.
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I'm Ben Griffiths:
TheyWorkForYou now links to those Twitter feeds using your spreadsheet, thanks
Given when Parliament is dissolved, all MPs cease to be MPs and so presumably cannot refer to themselves as such, I wonder what the 40 MPs who have MP in their Twitter username are going to rename themselves to.
Thanks for the list.
Anne Begg Labour MP for Aberdeen South is an occasional twitterer with just under 200 tweets to date. Twitter name is annebegg