Local MP Lynne Featherstone has become the first MP in the country regularly to ‘twitter’.Hornsey & Wood Green residents will now be able to sign up and get direct updates to find out what their MP is up to on regular basis using twitter.com

Forty-four people have already signed up to get the latest whereabouts of the net-savvy MP who has for a number of years kept a regular blog.

Commenting Lynne Featherstone says:

“I am happy to have joined the twittering classes!I am never a stranger to new technology, particularly when it will help me keep in touch with the people I represent.

“The Twitter service also means that local residents can sign up and tell me what they’re up to. It will be a great way for me to find out my constituents get up to and what’s bugging them at any given moment.”

People wishing to sign up to track Lynne Featherstone should sign up at http://twitter.com/lfeatherstone