MPs explain website has sent out Twitter messages in their names Technology

A Twitter page. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

The supervision is to see in to the concerns of north-west English MPs that their identities have been borrowed by a website tweeting in their names.

Janet Anderson, the MP for Rossendale and Darwen, told Harriet Harman, the personality of the house, in commercial operation questions currently that an eccentric website had proposed promulgation out Twitter messages in the names of all the MPs in the north west, and in a little cases enchanting with their constituents.

Anderson told the Guardian that the MPs had been told they could pretence carry out of the Twitter feed usually by emailing the website from their parliamentary address. Jack Straw, the probity secretary, is additionally an MP for a north-western chair and is pronounced to be creation apart inquiries.

In reply to Anderson"s question, Harman suggested that she as well had had her Twitter comment hacked in to last week and that the hacker had sent out a "bogus" tweet, or short message.

One of the people who perceived her brute twitter and replied to it was Alan Duncan, the shade prisons minister. Today Harman sensitive him the twitter had been fake.

The stakes for MPs should they have their Twitter identities stolen are rather high, with observers responding with disbelief last week when the Labour MP David Wright pronounced that he had not authored a twitter sent out in his name job the Tories "scum-sucking pigs".

Commiserating with Anderson, Harman pronounced she would discuss it ministers to see in to it. "I think there"s a genuine issue here and we"ve got to sort this out," she said.

The website "The year of collaboration" has sent out tweets in the names of all the MPs from north-west England and links by to their pages on the website They Work for You. The website no longer appears to be live but describes itself as a organisation of "techies in the north west who set up things on the internet".

Twitter is a website that allows people to send open messages of 140 characters or fewer to a organisation of contacts.