Labour tells its MPs to get busy web-spinning

Voters might think their members of Parliament already twitter, but now Labour MPs have been sent out to use the social networking site Twitter. The party has launched plans to flood the internet with messages from its MPs as Labour is thought to trail badly the Conservatives in using the boom in social networking on the web. It plans to use quick-fire messages on the hit website Twitter and its MPs will be able to link their personal websites to Twitter and the social networking site Facebook to send the party faithful instant alerts when they opine in cyberspace.