On Twitter: what does your MP do?

The logo of social networking website Twitter is seen displayed on the screen of an iPhone smartphone.

Jim Shannon has sent hundreds of tweets since setting up his account, analysis of his online activity reveals.

In the last of our series looking at the work of our politicians, we take a look at how active the Democratic Unionist Party MP for Strangford is on the social media platform.

Analysis of Jim Shannon's Twitter account (@RichardShannonMP) by Motive PR shows he had sent around 745 tweets between first joining the website on November 1 2015 and March 29 this year.

It means the 67-year-old sends an average of less than one tweet per day – putting out just 10 per month.

This account was created after Mr Shannon was elected to his seat – on May 6 2010.

The average MP that has an account sends 3.5 tweets per day, but around one in 10 representatives did not have one at the time the research was done.