The Prime Minister’s wife, Sarah Brown, has overtaken Stephen Fry as the top high-profile Tweeter. Though she is still short of musician Lily Allen.

The Guardian reported that the number of followers keeping up with Brown’s tweets amounts to almost five times the entire Labour party membership.

Research by the University of Plymouth found:

- Gender – women MPs are more likely to tweet. While they compose just 19.4% of the Commons they make up 29.4% of tweeters.

- Party – Labour has 54.2% of all MPs, and provides 66.7% of tweeting MPs. The Liberal Democrats have only 9.8% of all MPs, but provide 17.6% of all tweeting MPs. The Conservatives have 29.8% of all MPs, but provide only 11.8% of tweeting MPs.

- Portfolio – 43.1% of tweeting MPs are either Government Ministers or Official Opposition spokespersons.

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